Editing Fessenden, North Dakota (section)

==History==
Fessenden was founded in 1893 with the arrival of the [[Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad]] into the area. In 1894, the county seat was transferred to Fessenden from [[Sykeston, North Dakota]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA836 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | accessdate=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=836| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref> and the [[Wells County Courthouse (North Dakota)|Wells County Courthouse]] was built the next year. It was named for ex-Surveyor General Fessenden, who had surveyed the county.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/earlyhistorynort00loun | title=Early History of North Dakota: Essential Outlines of American History | publisher=Liberty Press | author=Lounsberry, Clement Augustus | year=1919 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/earlyhistorynort00loun/page/538 538]}}</ref>

Fessenden Auditorium building on Main Ave. between Railway Street South and 1 Street South has collapsed on July 3, 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fessendennd.com/PreviousHomepageArticles.htm |title=Previous Homepage Articles |accessdate=April 17, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421041447/http://www.fessendennd.com/PreviousHomepageArticles.htm |archivedate=April 21, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=fessenden+north+dakota&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7RNWN_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=CvrnSZT5I4vEM-nKrfEF&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1|title=Google Maps}}</ref> On April 16, 2009 there was a fire that destroyed a bar, bowling alley, and a cafe, as well as doing some damage to the medical center in Fessenden.<ref>[http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/115248/group/home/]{{dead link|date=March 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
Fessenden celebrated its centennial in July 1993.