Romness Township School District #9 (Griggs County, N.D.)

Romness Township was settled in 1880 by Peter Mathison, a government surveyor, and John Hogenson. Mathison named the township after his wife's birth place: Romness, Norway. Romness Township contains the second highest point in the county, Mount Franklin, and has the Sheyenne River crossing it diagonally. The Romness School District was created on May 26, 1886, at a meeting in Cooperstown. Romness had one ungraded school which was taught 45 days with 17 pupils enrolled, ranging in age from 6 to 32. The first teacher was J.H. Thomas, whose salary was thirty-five dollars a month. The Romness School District had three schoolhouses, the first being built in 1883, the second in 1900, and the final schoolhouse in 1903. The rural school closed in 1957.