Amenia, ND

Amenia is a city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 85 residents. Amenia was founded in 1880. The town is the site of several transmitter towers of Fargo broadcast television and radio stations. That mix gives Amenia a clear local shape within North Dakota, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. Amenia was the home of North Dakota governor William L. Amenia traces its roots to a group of wealthy New England investors from the villages of Amenia, New York and Sharon, Connecticut which formed the Amenia and Sharon Land Company and, in July 1875, under the representation of Eben W. Chaffee, purchased 27,832 acres of land from the then bankrupt Northern Pacific Railroad.