Bowdon 125th, Market and Bash

Just like McHenry, another Independent-area community is celebrating 125 years.

Bowdon will be celebrating their quasquicentennial Friday-Sunday, July 12-14, with a full slate of events scheduled for the three days.

One of several North Dakota towns named by Englishman Richard Sykes (Sykeston, Chaseley, Edgeley and Alfred being the others), Bowdon, founded in 1899, has an estimated population of 1...