Editing Moorhead, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The city was [[plat]]ted in 1871 and named for William Galloway Moorhead, a [[Northern Pacific Railway]] official and brother-in-law of financier [[Jay Cooke]].<ref name="Upham"/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lubetkin |first=M. John |date=2006 |title="Twenty Six-Feet and No Bottom": Constructing the Northern Pacific Railroad |page=6 |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/mnhistorymagazine/articles/60/v60i01p004-017.pdf |magazine=Minnesota History |volume=60 |issue=1 |publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]] |jstor=20188526 |accessdate=November 14, 2022}}</ref>

The former Moorhead Armory on 5th Street South was the site of the intended concert destination for musicians [[Buddy Holly]], [[Ritchie Valens]], and [[The Big Bopper]] before [[The Day the Music Died|their fatal plane crash]] a few miles north of [[Clear Lake, Iowa]], around 1 a.m. on February 3, 1959. The building was demolished in 1990 and is now the site of Ecumen Evergreens, a [[Retirement community|senior living]] property.

Moorhead is home to the first [[Dairy Queen]] to sell Dilly Bars.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.fargomoorhead.org/blog/?p=2395 |title= A Dilly Bar in Fargo-Moorhead? You Betcha! - Fargo-Moorhead|date=March 17, 2012 |work= fargomoorhead.org }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Moorhead man behind Dilly Bar dies at age 91; known as 'Dairy Queen Bob' |url= https://secure.forumcomm.com/?publisher_ID=1&article_id=418861|website=Inforum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208114545/https://secure.forumcomm.com/?publisher_ID=1&article_id=418861 |archive-date= December 8, 2014 |date= November 19, 2013}}</ref> The Moorhead Dairy Queen is also one of only a few Dairy Queens operating on a contract, signed in 1949,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rogue Dairy Queen has been ignoring corporate HQ since 1949|url=https://nypost.com/2015/07/23/rogue-dairy-queen-has-been-ignoring-corporate-hq-since-1949/|website=New York Post|access-date=July 12, 2017|date=July 23, 2015}}</ref> that allows it to feature products not approved by corporate headquarters. One example is the chipper sandwich, vanilla ice cream sandwiched between chocolate chip cookies and dipped in chocolate.