FROST, a city in Rome Township, sections 2 and 3, "was named for Charles S. Frost, an architect of Chicago" (Stennett, Place Names of the Chicago and Northwestern Railways, 1908). It was platted in 1899, incorporated as a village November 28, 1903, and again on July 6, 1916, separating from the township on February 24, 1914. The majority of early settlers came from Norway. The village had a station of the Minnesota and North Western Railway, and its post office began in 1899