19th Century
1895 �
� At Domb�s, where there is a telegraph station, the scene had entirely changed, and fields of waving barley and potatoes greeted the eye.... Here, at a height of 2,000 feet above the sea, the crops were not quite ripe, the season being backward. Barley required a few more days of sunshine, and the potatoes were still in bloom. The evenings became cold, and the farmers' faces showed their anxiety. The wind was from the NNW, and for two consecutive nights black frost appeared. The potato-vines turned black, and the grain crop was seriously injured. After the first frost everybody was at work in the fields, women and men sheaving the barley, and every available hand digging the potatoes. There was sorrow in many a farmer's heart, for the people were now greatly distressed, and I detected tears on many a mother's cheek during these two days. After this sudden cold spell the weather became cloudy, a violent storm set in, and the ground was covered with eighteen inches of wet snow, though it was only the 20th of September. �
� The Land Of The Midnight Sun, by Paul B. Du Chaillu; Publisher: George Newnes, Limited; London; 1899. Page 164
Twentieth century
The Dovre Line was extended to Domb�s in 1913 and Domb�s Station created. The was extended onwards to St�ren in 1921. Three years later, the Rauma Line opened to �ndalsnes. Domb�s Church was completed in 1939.
World War Two
1940 � During the Norwegian Campaign, the Germans recognized this rail, roadway and telegraph junction was strategically significant. From 13 April on the Germans started receiving messages of imminent allied action in Norway through the port of �ndalsnes. To counter this the German High Command ordered a takeover of Domb�s. The result was that a company of fallschirmj�gers from 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment, 7th Flieger Division
