A small ad in the Newspaper Dannevirke held an invitation for everyone interested in founding a new Danish colony in South Dakota. Interested parties were instructed to meet at the railway depot in St. Paul, Minnesota on the evening of 2nd October 1906.
Six persons showed up and boarded the train westward. By a twist of fate they ended up in Montana, but this did not stop them in their quest, and they founded the colony of Dagmar, named after a medieval Danish queen.
The initiative to build Dagmar derived from Emil F. Frederiksen who was a former Folk High School teacher and commemorated the event with the following words:
“In the western sun and wind
Dagmar, you will be founded in
the memory of a queen.”