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Community History Archive Partner
Sargent County
Forman, North Dakota
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Forman.
1883 to 2021Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
258,884Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Forman, North Dakota.
Explore the past of Forman, North Dakota through newspapers in Sargent County's digital archive. Its twenty titles include material from 1883 to 2021.
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Selected titles
In the collection shared by Sargent County, you will find “Cogswell Enterprise” and “The Sargent County News”.
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A closer look
A familiar name or event takes on another dimension in the newspaper coverage of its time, alongside the stories that mattered to the readers of that issue.
Reporting from the time can reveal how people described the events, work and concerns of their day, placing a local story within the history unfolding around it. Whether you are tracing a family connection, exploring a local event or sharing history with a class, there is more to discover than names and dates alone. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse twenty titles and 258,884 digitized pages, with material from 1883 to 2021. This collection is shared through Sargent County's partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
If you are tracing a family connection or exploring local history, the titles below offer a place to begin and a thread to follow.
Cogswell Enterprise
37,396 pages from 1903 to 1949
De Lamere News
702 pages from 1920 to 1921
Havana Record
768 pages from 1907 to 1908
Independent Reporter
1,710 pages from 1921 to 1923
Sargeant County Teller
48 pages in 1883
Sargent County Sentinel
484 pages from 1922 to 1923
Sargent County Teller
118,218 pages from 1883 to 2021
Stirum Citizen
304 pages from 1923 to 1924
The Cayuga Citizen
5,526 pages from 1911 to 1920
The De Lamere Mistletoe
5,976 pages from 1903 to 1916
The Forman Independent-News
3,944 pages from 1911 to 1918
The Forman News
4,078 pages from 1904 to 1911
The Havana Herald
846 pages from 1899 to 1923
The Havana Union
6,756 pages from 1911 to 1925
The Item
856 pages from 1887 to 1891
The Prairie Press
20,666 pages from 1912 to 1968
The Prairie Press
2,384 pages from 1909 to 1911
The Rutland Leader
2,374 pages from 1908 to 1911
The Sargent County Independent
3,600 pages from 1889 to 1911
The Sargent County News
42,248 pages from 1918 to 1968
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About the Archive
About Sargent County’s History Archives
Explore the Sargent County ’s digital archives, made possible through a partnership with Advantage Archives . These archives provide free access to historical newspapers and records, preserving the history of Sargent County, North Dakota. This is a valuable resource for historians, genealogists, and local history enthusiasts.
About the Community
About Sargent County
Sargent County is located in the southeastern part of North Dakota, bordered by South Dakota to the south, Richland County to the east, Ransom County to the north, and Dickey County to the west. The county covers 864 square miles with a total of 547,200 acres. Of this, 523,815 acres are farmland, 10,485 acres are owned by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the remainder consists of lakes, roads, town sites, and other areas. The county features 271 miles of county roads, 835.75 miles of township roads, and 97 miles of state highways, providing vital infrastructure for the region.
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Research Guidance
Look for the story behind a result
A family name, a familiar street or a story passed down through generations can lead to a closer look at the history of Forman. The digital archive shared by Sargent County offers a place to begin. When using historical newspapers, try alternate spellings and nearby dates, then read the surrounding page to place a local story in its time. Compare later reporting or another available title to explore different perspectives rather than treating one account as the whole story. Search a person, place, or event with a second term, then compare the date and context of each result. A repeated name needs more evidence before it identifies the same person or connects two parts of a story.
After recording the issue and page, search a second term tied to the result and compare the surrounding dates and accounts. Keep matching names provisional until the place and context fit. This can turn one result into a better question without turning a repeated name into a confirmed story.
Capture the title, date, and page or item location for a detail you may want to revisit. Label your interpretation as your reading, not the source's own words. Keep enough context with the note that another reader can retrace it.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of Sargent County, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
Learn about partnerships
Stories, research tips, and archive news
Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.
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