History of Steam boat paddle wheelers on the Red River.

This is just the start of a large collection of the history.

Always the most fashionable neighborhood in Grand Forks, Reeves Drive was named for D.P. Reeves, builder of steamboats for the Red River trade in the 1870's. Reeves helped organize Grand Forks County in 1875, along with steamboat captain Alexander Griggs the father of Grand Forks. After arrival of the first steamboat on the Red River in 1859, Grand Forks emerged as a Hudson Bay fur trading and steamboat shipping point between Winnipeg, Fargo, and St Paul, Minnesota.

J.J. Hill's railroad was built in 1880 and the Northern Pacific railroad came in 1882.