Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad. 1907. Kootenai County The first Norwegian in this county was Hans A. Sandager from Modum. He settled near Stinson in 1894. A couple of men ferried him and his family and baggage - on a log raft - down a lake that lay between civililisation and his future home. Another Norwegian who has lived a long time in this county is Captain Sørensen of Coeur d'Alene. P. Johnson and T. Hedal have also lived there some years. The first (and until now the only Norwegian congregation in Kootenai County was established at Stinson in 1901 by Pastor J. Blækkan of The Norwegian Synod. Post offices with Norwegian names in Idaho; Stinson in Kootenai Co., Lund in Bannock Co., Ola in Boise Co. as well as Anderson and Nora in Latah Co.