This was to be a GNRR station built in 1913 in Sec. 25-150-98, Schafer Twp., just south of Schafer.  A local rancher named it for his hometown of Pembroke, ME, which was named for Pembroke, Wales.   Pembroke is a welsh name meaning from the headland.  Railroad construction stopped at Watford City, and Pembrole failed to develop.


Since about 1953 the rural community in Wilbur Twp. (153-101) fifteen miles north of Alexander, has been known by this descriptive name, although many still use the original name of Rosseland.