CESSFORD
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CESSFORD |
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NAME: Cessford COUNTY: N/A ROADS: 4WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Mild summer,cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer |
COMMENTS:
East Central Alberta REMAINS: School and other buildings. |
| Seven miles north of Wardlow on Secondary Road 876 is the little hamlet of Cessford. Its first settlement originated as a store and post office after the first homesteaders arrived in1910. Originally it was know as Cess Fiord, named by homesteaders after their ancestral home in Sweden. When the railroad came it was simplified to Cessford. In the 1920s, Cessford had all the trappings of a thriving town with two grain elevators, two machine shops, a garage, hotel, barbershop, Chinese restaurant, police station, two schools, livery barn, dance hall, and a blacksmith shop. Its population peaked at around 100. Drought, grasshoppers, and dust storms reduced the population to 25 by the 1950s. Left besides the private residences are its school, a private trucking operation, and a community hall. H.B. Chenoweth |
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