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A great portion of the Anamoose information is resourced in MCHENRY COUNTY, Its History and Its People, 1885-1985, also North Dakota Place Names by Douglas Wick and Origins of North Dakota Place Names by Mary Ann Barnes Williams.
 A Township [Township 151, Range 75] and a city. The city was founded about 1893 by Romanians who came here from Saskatchewan, Canada. The Soo Line Railroad arrived and a townsite was established in Sections 22 and 23 of the township. The post office was established 7 September 1898 with Albert Albrecht as Postmaster, and the village incorporated in 1922. The elevation is 1620, the Zip Code is 58710, and a peak population of 669 was reached in 1910. In 2018 the population was about 244 people.
The Anamoose name has different sources. One is credited to the daughter of a Soo Line Railroad official who named it from a Chippewa word "uhnemoosh" which loosely meant "female dog." Another is the railroad was built by men of various nationalities, including many Indians, and that they all daily would feed a mongrel dog with left overs. The Indians called it "anamoose" meaning "hungry dog."
A Bit of Early Anamoose History
By Fred T. Schmidt
Edited by Florence Schmidt Clifford
From MCHENRY COUNTY:
Its History and Its People
1885-1985
Saint Francis Xavier Church - 1900-1975 Diamond Jubilee Celebration
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