Lake Lillian

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The lake for which the town of Lake Lillian is named after. Lake Lillian (immediately south on County Road 8) was founded in May, 1864 by Rev. Johannes Andreas Johannessen Bomstad, who led his family and religious colony of Troms Mindekirken dissenters (Apostolic Free Church members) from the northernmost edges of Scandinavia to America. During the next three decades, emigrants from other parts of Norway and Scandinavia arrived in the area of Lake Lillian to make their homes in a new land, and to pass on their Scandinavian heritage to their descendants. Many of these new settlers were from the parishes of Gagnef and Mockfjard, in Dalarna, Sweden. A handful were even of Sami descendancy. Now, almost one hundred and fifty years later, the descendants of these proud and adventurous people are looking backward toward their ancestry, in search of their family roots in Lake Lillian.
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