Asotin County, Washington

Early Norwegian Settlement

Rolf Aune from Orkanger was the first Norwegian settler in the vicinity of Clarkston, where a small Norwegian community had developed by 1905. He settled there in 1898. The settlement lay along the Snake River near the Idaho border and only a short distance from Lewiston.

Norwegian Place Names

There was a post office named Hanson Ferry.

Sources:

[Ulvestad, Martin. Nordmændene i Amerika. Utg. History Book Company's Forlag. Minneapolis, Minn. 1907.]