Named for a railroad camp on the east edge of the Sheyenne River Valley during the construction of the Casselton-Marion branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Eastedge was never platted.

The first and only stores were built or moved in by the Larson family of Kathryn, shortly after 1900. A post office was established on June 27, 1902. Bernt Boroby was the first postmaster. During the heyday of Eastedge it had a feed mill, two elevators, two general merchandise stores, a hardware store, a blacksmith shop, post office, lumber yard, school and a depot.

The school, built in 1920, had at its peak ten grades. It housed the teachers and a small gym in the basement. Naturally, it was the center of the social life of the farming community.

Only an overgrown dirt road and the remains of some building foundations marks the place of a once viable community. A ghost town, Eastedge still has memories for many residents of Barnes County.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 283