 Waller shipped the lumber to build a house, which he had gotten out of Minneapolis, to here as soon as the trains were running, and he put up one of the first houses in the village.He moved his family here in November 1869.The pioneers, some of whom lived in nothing more than a “dugout”, named their settlement Ness on April 5, 1858, because most of the first settlers’ home church was in Ness, Hullingdahl, Norway.