Tollef Helland moved with his family from Mount Vernon, South Dakota to Addie Township in August of 1908, having bought some land 2-3 years earlier. He intended to build but instead bought a quarter Section with buildings on it from T. H. Dahl, which is still in the family.

Mr. Helland had the first sweep rake used in the neighborhood as he had it along from South Dakota They were not in use here at that time. He seeded the first field of alfalfa, but very little interest in that crop was taken at that time.

The McHenry-Cooperstown main road went through south Binford going in a SE direction. In the NW corner of the NE quarter section you can still see the grade and where the earth fill was taken. From there it went in a SE direction until it came to the Section line and then south.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 page 183