Noonan was founded in 1906 by the Great Northern Railroad in the northeast corner of Divide County and is located at the intersection ND Highways 5 and 40. It was named after a family with farming and mining interests in the area.
Colors and Meaning. Over the years, the colors of the French National flag have come to represent liberty, equality, and fraternity â all ideals associated with the French Revolution. But the meaning behind the colors has come after the fact, and there are many theories.
The modern flag was adopted in 1794 incorporating the traditional colors of Paris (red and blue) with the traditional white of the Bourbon family which ruled France from the 1500s to the French Revolution in 1792, and then later for a year in the early 1800s.