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Caledonia is an unincorporated community in Traill County, North Dakota in the United States. A former boomtown of the 1870s and the era of the Hudson's Bay Company steamship trade, the community has now all but virtually disappeared.[3]
[edit] History
First called Goose River, the community was established as a post for the Hudson's Bay Company steamships which operated on the Red River of the North.[3] Caledonia became an early boom town in the Red River Valley and also became a post for a stagecoach line which lead north to Fort Garry — now called Winnipeg.[3] Upon the creation of Traill County in 1875, Caledonia was designated as the county seat.[4] However, in that same year, the Hudson Bay Company closed their U.S. posts including the one at Caledonia. When James J. Hill's railroad crossed Traill County, it bypassed Caledonia. The steamboat industry soon floundered and the county seat was moved to Hillsboro in 1896.[3]
[edit] Geography
Caledonia is located at 47°40′39″N, 97°06′05″W (47.450596, -96.917137). The community sits on the banks of the Goose River near the confluence with the Red River of the North.
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