The Village of Somerset is located approximately 130 kilometres south west of Winnipeg, in the center of the Rural Municipality of Lorne at the junction of Provincial Hwy.

Its landscape consists of a multitude of grain fields broken by occasional wood lots and pothole marshes.

This agreement stated that for the price of $1, forty acres from each of these quarters were to be set aside to provide for the site of Somerset when needed.

The agreement also read, “The Railway at its own expense shall locate and lay out a town site on these lands and within three months shall place the lots on the market for sale.

Additional lands shall be donated to the Railway for a right of way.”  This agreement was carried out and on September 30, 1889, the rails of the Northern Pacific were laid in Somerset.