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Prairie Village Museum brings history to life (Rugby)

Preserving farm history (Minot)

Fort Stevenson State Park keeps history alive (Garrison)

‘A little slice of Americana’ (Minot)

Founder of Mohall worked to bring the town to life

Ghosts of the past (Manfred)

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A special place (Medora)

Pioneer Village offers historical treasures (Burlington)

Tribute to area heritage - Old Settlers Park (Burlington)

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David Thompson Monument (Velva)

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Welcome to this year's edition of the award-winning Hometown Magazine, dubbed “Hometown Heritage.” This year we are honoring the distinct histories and historic attractions of communities in our coverage area. We hope the magazine will illustrates the unique, historic aspects of the towns included in this edition. "Hometown Heritage" implies any number of aspects of place and people, and thus offers a survey of numerous communities in the region. “Hometown Heritage” is designed to be a year-round reference for readers interested in exploring the distinct sites in our region. We hope you appreciate “Hometown Heritage” and feel free to offer suggestions for future editions of Hometown by emailing Michael W. Sasser at msasser@minotdailynews.com. We looks forward to hearing from you, and enjoy! Editor

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The General Store at the Prairie Village Museum in Rugby was built to look exactly how it would have back during its original time.

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PRAIRIE VILLAGEMUSEUM brings history to life W Rugby museum offers a piece of history to be explored

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ith a story to tell and more than 20 historical buildings from across North Central North Dakota, the Prairie Village Museum in Rugby works hard to preserve the history started in 1965 by the Geographical Historical Society. Every building on the 20 acres of land has a story to tell. From the 1906 Zion Lutheran Church to the carefully crafted General Store to the Norway House to the many featured displays, the museum tells the story of the first white settlers to come to the state before it was called North Dakota.

The Geographical Historical Society was founded in Rugby in 1959. The founding group consisted of representatives from the Rugby Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Corporation, City Council, Ministerial Association, Masonic Lodge, Knights of Columbus, Park Board and various county womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clubs. Harold T. Anderson was the first elected president of the board of directors and Glenn Dokken served as the first curator for the museum. Now Stephanie Steinke holds the position with the title of executive director. She started with the Prairie Village Museum in 2016 as collections manager before moving up. She loves what she does and has a masters degree in history. In 1971, the Prairie Village Museum became a 501c3 non profit. The museum board was dissolved in 1982 and the Historical Society took over.

Steinke describes the museum as a weird place that is both very general and very specific. “We tell a broad story that really is the same story of any town that was founded in the 1880s in North Dakota, like the railroad town, but when you walk into each building, there are very specific historical moments too,” she explained. The first building to be donated to the Prairie Village Museum was the 1906 Zion Lutheran Church, which was moved on to the land in 1965. From there, the museum quickly grew. Following the church was the 1898 Norway House from Leeds, the 1885 log cabin from Towner, a bank and a blacksmith shop. In 1972, the Great Northern Railroad donated the 1886 Penn Depot building. Then in 1974, they donated the 1905 wooden caboose to the museum, giving them something special and rare. Steinke explained, “Most cabooses are made out of metal. We have one of the few wood ones in the whole country.” The year 1977 brought in the Asmunder Benson Law building and the telephone building, both from Bottineau. “There is still an Asmunder Benson practicing law in Bottineau,” Steinke said. Many other buildings received over the years included the cook car and a schoolhouse from Wolford and the jail from York. The Sylva School was one of the final buildings donated in 1978. In 1982, the General Store was built to be as exact to what it would have looked originally. While the outside is rebuilt, everything inside, according to Steinke, is originals and painstakingly placed to be as accurate as possible. “We work off old photographs and try to set things up inside so they match,” she said. With items and buildings from all around, Steinke says they are at ing item that is rather spethe center of all the history. cial to the museum: a dress “We have the heart of it all for the heritage for North Cen- worn by Queen Victoria of tral North Dakota,” she said. England in 1870 as she inOf course, the Prairie Village Museum offers more than vested Hugh Frsvenor with just the historical buildings. Also on the 20 acres is four the Knight of the Garter. buildings showcasing farm machines from those that were The dress is confirmed to horse drawn to two-cylinders and cars with Model As and be genuine by Kensington. Model Ts to those created in the 30s and 40s. According to Steinke, One featured car is the very first 1928 Ford Model A Queen Victoria was known to give away items to her people Coupe sold in Rugby by Gronsveld Motors. Many of the cars, and one such person, Marie Downing, received an extensive including this Model A, still run and can be seen in different amount of her belongings. parades held in Rugby. Marie Downing joined the Queen’s service as a personal The Prairie Village Museum also has an extensive collec- maid and worked for her for many years before coming to tion of clothing items. One part that Steinke is rather proud the United States and to Minnewauken in 1887 to marry of is the collection of children’s clothes, saying her husband. Along with paying for her travthat it is one of the best anywhere. els, Queen Victoria sent nine trunks of items “Usually children’s clothes get worn out, with Downing as a wedding gift and althey get thrown away, they don’t last. We lowed her to keep her pension. More information have a wonderful collection. You really Not much is known about Downof the Prairie can’t see children’s clothes very many ing beyond what is said on a plaque Village Museum and places, so we’re very careful with them near the displayed dress of Queen Victhe events they offer and don’t take them out all the time, but toria. The only real information known can be found it’s really a gem,” she said. starts in 1881. These are held along with other online at www.prairieThe main building also features clothing items in the dress shop. village-museum.com. different rooms with different themes. Inside the main building of the Prairie One features Native American pieces, anVillage Museum, they feature another cloth-

The Prairie Village Museum is home to two separate school houses, one from the 1905 country school (TOP) and the other the Silva School house (BOTTOM LEFT).

BOTTOM RIGHT: One of the many buildings at the Prairie Village Museum site holds old cars. Here sits the very first Ford vehicle sold by Gronsveld Motors in Rugby.. Photos by Shyanne Belzer/MDN

other features guns and rifles and another is titled the German Russian room. “We have a large German Russian community here,” said Steinke, “and soon the German Russian room will be turning into a German Russian building.” Ground was broken for the new building in June and it will house more of the history of the German Russians who came to the Rugby area as settlers. Along with the new building being built, renovations are being done all over in the next few years. The main building has already begun to get updated to help create a better space for all they want to display. “We’re working to save our heritage by preparing for the future. We will be able to serve more people and serve them better while telling the story,” Steinke explained. Every summer the Prairie Village Museum will welcome around 5,000 guests or more, sharing a unique stop to learn, see and experience the history of North Dakota. In the fall they host the Annual Village Fair where guests can really see the village come to life with costumed reenactments, demonstrations, food and more. “The village comes alive with women in skirts and dresses, men in top hats and tails. If you want to experience the village as it was, it’s really fun,” Steinke said. The event offers a variety of treats and has activities for all ages.

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Preserving farm history BELOW: Gene Eggen stands next to his 1922 Rumely Oil Pull, his pride and joy.

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RIGHT: An Oliver 1600 is one of the later models in Gene Eggen’s collection.

Tractor collector finds pleasure in yesterday’s horsepower

ene Eggen tips a container of gasoline starter into the fuel tank of his 1922 Rumely Oil Pull as the engine chugs away. “That’s my pride and joy – has been ever since I got it,” said Eggen, a Minot collector of old tractors, during a private tour of his acquisitions this past summer. The Rumely spent several years on loan to a Kenmare museum. Various tractors in Eggen’s collection have gone on the road in parades and to threshing shows. The shows are where North Dakota’s farm history is put on display and where enthusiasts like Eggen can enjoy watching machines that once were mechanical marvels in earlier days of agriculture. “Everything has a story,” said Eggen, whose entry into collecting tractors and engines came about because of an interest he developed as a boy while watching a neighbor operate his C AllisChalmers. “Many years after that,” he said, estimating it was in the 1980s, “I contacted a relative of his and asked, ‘Whatever happened to Hjalmer’s tractor?’ She told me, ‘Well, it’s setting alongside a slough up in the hills, all tore apart.’ She said he tried to fix it but it never was to be fixed again. So I bought it from her. That was my first one. “It has absolutely no extras on it except the weights on the front end. It has no power steering, of course. It has no power takeoff. It has no generator, no starter. It comes with the modern thing – the crank. You either cranked it to start it or rolled it down a hill,” he said. Since acquiring the Allis-Chalmers, built around 1939, he’s taken on restoration projects of more tractors than he wants to admit.

“Once you start with these things, you don’t have to look for out in the field. It wasn’t fun after the first hour,” he said, jokingly adding, “It was very boring. You almost wished something them anymore. They find you,” he joked. His BR John Deere, made in 1937, was the second tractor he would break so you could go home and fix it.” Eggen’s collections include tractors made by many of the bought. He spied it along the road on the way to Bismarck so he companies that manufactured farm implements back in the day. stopped on his way back home and bought it. “It still runs pretty nice,” he said. The tractor model was man- It includes Minneapolis Moline, Oliver, Massey Ferguson, Massey Harris, McCormick Farmall and International. ufactured from 1936 to 1947, according to tractordata.com. “I’m not prejudiced. I like all of them,” he said. The 1922 Rumely is the oldest tractor in his collection. His collection includes a tractor rescued from west of ArThe Rumely Oil Pull was the first tractor to use an oil cooling system, which kept the engine at a steady temperature no rowhead Shopping Center in Minot during the 2011 flood. He matter how heavy the tractor’s load, according to the National brought it home in 13 boxes because it was in a state of being Museum of American History. The tractor starts on gasoline but taken apart at the time. His most powerful tractor is a 1963 100-horsepower Massey runs on kerosene, making it much lighter and easier to maneuFerguson. ver than its steam-driven predecessors. “It was the first 100-hp engine ever built,” he said. According to the museum history: “Rumely engineers also His most rare machine is one made by Clark Equipment Co. made space for an extra person in the tractor’s cab, gave the operator a clear view in every direction, and placed all the mechanisms – gear shift, clutch, foot brake, steering wheel, carburetor, and more – in easy reach. These new design elements helped the Rumely Oil Pull to surpass most old kerosene tractors, and many of these features were further refined in gasoline-powered machines.” Rumely models were manufactured from 1910 to 1930, according to tractordata.com. Eggen acquired his Rumely after seeing an advertisement in the Burke County Tribune. “I didn’t have one of these. I never dreamt that I would ever have one,” he said. The tractor was picked up southwest of Crosby, only a few miles from his grandparents’ homestead south of Ambrose. Eggen grew up on a farm near Lignite, leaving in 1962 to attend Minot – Gene Eggen, State University and to become a tractor collector school band instructor and later work in real estate. He is a past president of the Ward County Historical Society. Eggen acquired his grandfather’s 1929 D John Deere, used into the 1960s when his grandfather seeded his last crops. Eggen obtained the tractor from a cousin who had planned to haul it in for scrap if he didn’t want it. “It will be kind of exciting to get it running and back to original,” Eggen said. “I have steel wheels to put back on it – a complete set. “I like the things with steel wheels, but it’s really rough riding,” he chuckled. In the early days, rubber wasn’t available. Hence, the steel wheels. Another of his older tractors is a 1929 GP John Deere. “It was kind of a experimental tractor that John Deere made, and it’s quite a bit different than their normal tractors. They made implements that fit on the front end of the tractor – cultivators, discs, those types of things – and they had mechanical lifts on them,” Eggen said. Eggen’s second oldest tractor is a 1927 D John Deere. “John Deere built thousands and thousands of D John Deere. Up until several years ago, it was the most mass produced. They built it from 1923 all the way up to 1953 – 30 years of production,” Eggen said. “They were quite common. This one has a few things on it that are a little different. It has a wooden platform. The earlier ones had a wooden platform. The rest of them, starting about 1928, went to a steel platform.” Eggen owns only one Case. “That isn’t the tractor I drove out in the field when I was nine years old, but it is just like it. It’s like driving a car. It’s so easy to steer, and I thought it was really going to be fun. My dad put me

‘Everything has a story.’

for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. It’s a tractor crawler, gasoline operated, built in March 1944 in the state of Michigan. “As the Germans were being defeated, they would blow up their airfields as they were leaving so that you couldn’t land on them. Our allies, which the United States was a big part of, took this little machine with a dozer on it, loaded it in either a small airplane or one of their gliders. The guy who piloted the glider was also the operator of this, and they would have the airfield holes filled in with these within a half hour, and they could land on those bases then,” Eggen said. “There are not very many of them around. I think they dropped a lot of them in the ocean on their way back.” He found his in Rapid City, bartering with an owner willing to trade for an H McCormick. Eggen’s favorite tractors are a 1951 McCormick Farmall Super C and a 1940 BO John Deere, used in fruit orchards. The Super C, in particular, has made the rounds of area shows. Eggen gets some use of his smaller tractors in his own garden but admits they wouldn’t do the job in today’s large-scale agriculture. Not only has the size of farms grown but so has the cost of doing business. “You used to be able to buy a new tractor for less than $1,000. Now $1,000 won’t buy some of the minor parts,” Eggen said.

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LEFT: Gene Eggen’s D John Deere that belonged to his grandfather is among tractors he is restoring. BELOW: Gene Eggen turns the crank as he prepares to start his Rumely Oil Pull.

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KEEPS HISTORY ALIVE Park offers a variety of amenities for visitors to enjoy By SHYANNE BELZER

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ort Stevenson State Park has been a part of the Garrison community since it began in 1974. Open year round, the park offers a variety of amenities to those interested in camping, boating or just spending the day with nature alongside a long list of events throughout all seasons. The state park was named after the old frontier post that was located two miles southwest of the present park. The original fort site, according to park manager Chad Trautman, was on the north bank of the Missouri River at its junction with Douglas Creek. What was once a military reservation containing 71.7 square miles now lies under Lake Sakakawea. Fort Stevenson was originally called New Fort Berthold before the military reservation was declared in June 1868 and renamed. The fort was named after Brigadier General Thomas Stevenson, a Union officer who was killed in the Civil War battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia in May 1864. See PARK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Page 14

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Fort Stevenson had multiple purposes. According to a history of Fort Stevenson provided by Trautman, “The primary purpose of Fort Stevenson was to offer military protection to the peaceable three tribes (Mandan, Arikara and Gros Ventres) at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation against the hostile Sioux.” The fort served as an intermediate point in an overland mail route extending from Fort Rice to Fort Buford and from Fort Benton to Fort Totten and as a link in a chain of the proposed routes from Minnesota to the gold fields in Montana and Idaho. Its final purpose was to serve as a Submitted Photo supply base for Fort TotFort Stevenson holds a variety of events throughout the year for participants to take part in, including enjoying a ride on an au- ten. By the 1880s, Fort tumn day. Proud to be Member of MADC

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Stevensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value as a military post was nearing an end and in August 1883, the fort was officially abandoned. The buildings continued to be used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a school until 1894 before being sold at a public auction. All that remains of the now flooded fort is a few existing photographs and literature that was written about Fort Stevenson. The history of Fort Stevenson was also continued 78 years later when Fort Stevenson State Park began. The park started with approximately 50 campsites and one park ranger. In the mid-70s, the park began to expand when 50 more campsites and a comfort station were added in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the 1980s, the park saw some of the biggest changes with the construction of a full-service marina to include a concession building, a restaurant and 60 boat slips,â&#x20AC;? said Trautman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other improvements this decade included development of the day-use areas to include picnic shelters and swim beach.â&#x20AC;? In the 1990s, a volunteer group that was focused on the fortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history began with a mission to reconstruct a replica of the original guardhouse from Fort Stevenson. The 1990s was also when many of the well-known events held at Fort Stevenson State Park began. These included

Skydance Sakakawea, which later was renamed Skyfest, and Frontier Military Days. Skyfest is held annually on Memorial Day weekend. Participants fill the sky with kites of all shapes, sizes and colors. Activities revolve around kites, including a workshop for kids to make their own kites. Frontier Days, held the fourth full weekend in June, allows visitors to see the history of the original Fort Stevenson with living history demonstrations with encampment and maneuvers. Another big event that is held at the park is Maple Sugaring Days. Taking place the second Saturday of April, this event gives visitors a chance to learn the history of maple tapping, see the tools and enjoy pancakes served with fresh maple syrup. Since Fort Stevenson State Park is open year-round, the park also offers winter activities. The park staff groom approximately 10 miles of classic cross country ski trails and fat bike tire trails so that visitors can go walking or rent winter equipment from the visitor center including fat tire bikes, snowshoes and Nordic skis. The state park offers a stop for all park needs from a place to boat and swim to walking paths to camping spots and cabins and more.

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ing. I only remember one cooler, and no freezer except for the small one with pushups, ice cream bars, fudgesicles and popsicles in it. Oh, how I loved it when I scored a banana popsicle! “Growing up, a couple of us were often sent to Sunshine for whatever was missing from the cupboard for a meal: milk, butter, bread, or sugar usually. I was sent with my brother, or maybe my By OWEN BRENDEN girlfriend from next door. Here is where the old I worked for Minot Grocery, one of three wholesale grocery firms, from 1947 to 1950. adage applies: it was the journey, not the package, We were Nash Finch Distributors. The competitors were Gamble Robinson and Ward that counted. I remember eating the Mercantile. We serviced retail grocery stores with produce, yellow buds off a hedge from one house, or playing ‘don’t step on the groceries, and tobacco for the city of Minot with four country Owen Brenden, crack’ down the sidewalk as we meMinot, worked for routes serving an area of approximately 100-mile radius. In andered our way to the store. SomeMinot Grocery, addition we serviced the same area bars and liquor stores times we would race on our bikes. one of the three with Budweiser and Glueks beer. The building is still loThe first big outing on my first brand wholesale gronew bike (a white Schwinn with pink cery firms, from cated at Central Avenue and First Street Northeast. Some 1947-50. stripes – my brother’s was black with of you may have gone there in later years for Joseph’s Hair white stripes!) was to Sunshine. I reEloise Ogden/MDN College. member seeing the little ribs of rubI began as a clerk in the office and eventually became ber still hanging on those new bike tires. I remember arguing who would the cashier. Our office personnel took turns every week carry the groceries, and racing home. night to receive the daily phone calls from the country I also vividly remember the candy salesmen. These orders, when phoned in, would be counter behind the till! There were recorded on a dictaphone, from which we would listen to penny bubble gums and waxy juices, and transcribe with pencil to the sales orders. The sales or5th Avenue bars, licorice pipes and whips, root beer kegs, dots on a sheet, ders would be given to the night foreman who would be reand the guys’ favorite – baseball cards sponsible to have all the country trucks loaded and ready to with a stick of gum. But my favorite? go early in the morning. Either a purple wrapped Bigtime bar, On June 6, 1949, I turned 21, and immediately became a or a blue wrapped Hollywood bar – for a nickel! Apparently it’s chocolate country salesman, which was my dream job. (You had to be forever for me! Another favorite was a nickel bag of 21 to sell beer.). Some folks may recall that the winter of 1949-1950 was the worst winter sun seeds. Walking home from school I would often on record for snow and blizzards, with the 5th Army opening roads and hay for livestock yearn for some pocket change, so I could make a being delivered by military C-47 aircraft. My sales route was the Northwest route on quick stop at Sunshine! “I remember quite a few neighborhood stores. Highway 52 from Minot to Crosby, Culbertson, Montana, Williston, and back on Highway There was the Maragos store across from my dad’s 2. Each time I was stuck in blocked roads, I wished I had stayed in the warm Minot office! barbershop on 4th Avenue, another one further In September 1950 Uncle Sam ended my grocery career, and I never engaged in the down called Heisler’s, one a few doors north of grocery business again; however, I have many fond memories of the folks I worked with Longfellow School on 16th Street, then Helm’s Grocery over toward Roosevelt School. These little and the customers I served back in the “good old days.” stores were a little slice of Americana; what fun memoSubmitted Photo ries!” Helm’s Grocery circa 1967. Luanne Lee, who now lives in Las Vegas, Nev., also reminisces about Minot’s neighborhood grocery stores. “Growing up on 3rd Street Southeast (St. Joe’s Hospital hill), I recall a few grocery stores. “Larson Food Store – was located on 4th Avenue SE across from St. Paul Church. It was owned by Clarence Larson. I remember walking through the store everyday on my way home from Central School (grade 1-6). My Mom would call Mr. Larson if she needed any groceries and we would pick them up on our Submitted Photo way home. Mr. Larson taught me a few Norwegian words. Liberty Grocery circa 1967. See GROCERY — Page 20

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The retail grocers included, as of Sept. 1959:

– Chain Food Market at 505 2nd Street NW – Co-op Market at 22-32 3rd Street NE – Cut Rate Food Market No. 1 at 4th Avenue & 2nd Street NW – Cut Rate Food Market No. 2 at 300 Central Avenue E – Cut Rate Grocery Store No. 3 at 1609 4th Avenue NW – Eagle Grocery at 304 6th Street NE – Eastwood Park Grocery at 528 Central Avenue E – Garden Valley Grocery at 4th Avenue & 20th Street NW – Gateway Grocery at Valker Road – Helms Grocery at 603 8th Avenue NE – Hiway Food Market at 223 2nd Street SW – Johnson’s Grocery at 411 4th Avenue SW – Larsons Food Market at 213 4th Avenue SE – Liberty Grocery at 510 4th Avenue NE – Magic Mile Market at 1520 2nd Street SW – Minot Food Store at 301 3rd Avenue SE – Mulroney’s Store at 6th Avenue & 2nd Street NW – Normal Park Food Market at 711 16th Street NW – North Hill Grocery at Highway 83 N – Oppens Inc ‘83 Market at 1405 2nd Street SW – Parkway Grocery at 823 4th Avenue SE – Perry’s East Side Service at Highway 2 E – Piggly Wiggly Northland Corp at 213-215 Main Street S – Piggly Wiggly Store No. 10 at Highway 2 E – Quality Food Market at 721 6th Avenue NE – Red Owl Food Store at 116 1st Street SW – Red Owl Store at 1311 2nd Street SW – Second Street Super Valu at 623 2nd Street NW – South Hill Grocery at 212 8th Avenue SE – Sunshine Grocery at 836 9th Avenue NW – Third Street Super Valu at 517 3rd Street NE – Two & Fifty Two Market at Highway 2 & 52 W – Virg’s Grocery at 437 2nd Avenue NW

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“Minot Food Store – owned by George Chumas. Everyone in Minot knows about George. I would wait for the Jim Hill school bus in the telephone booth outside of the store. When George went to Greece to get his bride, his parents took care of the store. They weren’t real fluent in English so I would help them with their wholesale order. The Chumas family became our family’s friends, in fact they were even at my wedding (45 years ago) and I meet up with their daughter every so often as she also lives in Las Vegas.” According to a list of grocery stores in the September 1959 Northern States Power Company’s “Minot Telephone Directory,” provided by Owen Brenden of Minot, the city had at least 30 grocery stores, most of them neighborhood grocery stores.

Wholesale grocers in Minot listed were, as of Sept. 1959:

– Gamble Robinson Co. at 30 1st Street NE – Nash Finch Co. at Highway 2 & 52 W – Oppen’s Inc Wholesale at 712 13th Street SE

OPPOSITE PAGE TOP LEFT: George Chumas is shown at Minot Food Store on Third Avenue SE in this 1978 photo. OPPOSITE PAGE TOP RIGHT: Sunshine Grocery circa 1967. OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM LEFT: North Hill Grocery circa 1967. OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM RIGHT: South Hill Grocery circa 1967. PHOTO TO THE RIGHT: Oppen’s ‘83 Super Market. Submitted Photos

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t’s called a toy collection, but there’s a historical element to the model farm tractors and implements that reflect agriculture through the years. Lake County Historical Society’s Pioneer Village & Museum in Kenmare is home to a special collection of toy models that once were part of a local collector’s private museum. Rosina Eymann and family donated the collection of her husband, Vernon, following his death in 2014. About a third of the collection was sold, but about 2,000 pieces remain and are on display in a building donated to the museum by the Bob and Kathy Mau family. The first public display at the museum was in 2018. “It’s wonderful to have a collection that’s this extensive,” said Bryan Quigley with the Lakeside County Historical Society. “It’s kind of an amazing addition.” Eymann collected toys sized 1/16th, 1/32nd, 1/50th and 1/64th. He also restored six full-sized tractors and had been working on others. He began collecting the toys in 1984 and took to building his own toy models in 1986.

“You couldn’t buy 1/16th scale to go behind a tractor, so he started building implements,” Rosina Eymann said. He would measure the full-sized implement and take photos, creating his own pattern for building the toy equipment. It was a feat of engineering to be able to design the way Eymann did, but Rosina Eymann noted her husband was not an engineer. He did have a keen mind for details, though. “He had such a perfect eye that if a guy built a toy and it was off, he could see it,” Rosina Eymann said. His drafting table and some tools are in the museum so visitors can get an idea of his work. He built 36 Steigers, 25 flextillers, 10 cultivators and seven Big Buds. There also were discs, harrows, trailers, augers, trucks and drills. Eymann sold all but the first built of each kind. All were serial numbered, with a record kept indicating where each piece went when sold. Other pieces in the toy collection Eymann found at toy stores or through ordering series pieces as companies released them. Rosina Eymann said her husband enjoyed his hobby,

and she enjoyed seeing his pleasure in his collection. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When he first started, I think he worked as many hours on that as he did at his job,â&#x20AC;? she said. Vern had been a mechanic. The museum includes a number of trophies received by Eymann from toy shows where he entered his models. For quite a few years, the Eymanns traveled to Dyersville, Iowa, for the huge national farm toy show. Rosina also chaired the Kenmare Chamberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toy show for 20 years. The collection donated to the museum fills the main floor of the donated house. One room houses the John Deere collection and another the Case International Harvester collection. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was an IH man before he was a John Deere man because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they had out on the farm,â&#x20AC;? Rosina Eymann said. Yet another room houses a mixed collection, from Allis Chalmers to Oliver. Vern Eymann had begun col-

lecting airplanes so there are several on display, along with construction equipment toys and toy magazines from the years he collected. Interspersed among the toy collection are his collections of caps and belt buckles, which tell their own stories of the history of agriculture and the region. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a pen collection, and among wall hangings are paintings by well-known area artist Vernell Hanson. Another display consists of a miniature farm set, complete with house, barn, quonset, swingset cows and chickens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he would be very happy with it,â&#x20AC;? Rosina Eymann said of the museum that stands today. Pete Thorp, Kirk Norlin and Milo Johnson assisted in organizing the toy collection for the museum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was fun just to watch them sort things out. They worked hard,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rosina Eymann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were over 2,000 pieces to go through.â&#x20AC;? Railroad museum representatives

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he ghosts of past citizens seem to walk through the little town of Manfred, nine miles east of Harvey on U.S. Highway 52. The entire town has been preserved as a heritage site by the Manfred History and Preservation Inc. A few years ago, the entire village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, thanks to the dedication of people like museum director Wanda Melchert. Most of the building interiors are not open to the public, but Manfred History and Preservation Inc. has installed kiosks outside the buildings that give information about the history of the buildings and the people who lived and worked in them. Some of the original switchboard operators at the Manfred-Fram Telephone Company, which was started in 1908, were Clara Le Grand and Olive Torkelson, from 1908 to 1908. From 1910 to 1912, the operators were Fred Johnson, Harold Skogmo, Tillie Opdahl, and Emma Larson. From 1913 to 1914, the operators were B.W. Baldwin and Helga Hauge. From 1915 to 1917, Gertrude Le Grand was the operator. Anna Dovre was the operator from 1918 to 1922. Marie Hovey, who suffered from severe arthritis but didn’t let it keep her from her post, was the switchboard operator from 1923 See MANFRED — Page 28

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to 1952, with the help of Mildred Boese Soiseth in the late 1930s, and Violet Boese Kittelson was the operator from 1952 to 1954. Manfred’s exchange closed in the 1950s and residents got their phone service through Fessenden and Harvey. Bell Telephone bought out local telephone groups in 1962. In 1993, North Dakota Telephone Company became the provider, according to a kiosk celebrating the Central Office and Neighborhood. The kiosk celebrates other original residents of Manfred such as Olaf and Thea Tansem, who built a home there in 1899, and neighbors Steiner and Bergitte Aasand, Nennie and Alpha Johnson, and Edwin and Celia Olstad. Swan and Sophie Willborg built their home in 1900 and lived near Olaf and Nina Roble, and Torstein Roble. Later residents included W. Roy and Sadie Owen, who built their home in 1917, who were joined by neighbors Anton and Emma Aasand, P.B. and Anna Anderson. Another house in town was built in 1946 by Rudolph and Martha Hieb, according to the kiosk, using materials from a house built by Christ and Anna Roble. Some of their other neighbors were Ole and Clara

Gladheim and Walter and Mayme Larson. Bertha Melby built a modular home in town in 1965 that was later moved out to a farm. The voices of some of their children and grandchildren still seem to echo in a schoolhouse that was being restored by Melchert in June. Melchert explained that the school closed in the early 1970s and, for a time, was converted into a home lived in by a family. Later, it was used for storage. The goal of the Manfred History and Preservation Inc. is to make the school look as it did in its earliest

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years, with gleaming wooden floors and furniture and other decor that is authentic to the time period. A gymnasium, unusually for a school, was on the top floor of the old school instead of on the bottom floor. The property owner and now Manfred History and Preservation have also chosen to preserve the graffiti left behind by naughty school children while their teacher was away, not long before the school closed its doors. The children drew pictures of flowers in chalk and signed their names and the name of the teacher on the wall. Visitors to the school might almost hear them giggling and see them waving from the top floor windows. Visitors are invited to sign their own names to the chalkboard in one of the school classrooms. For the past few years, adults and children have signed their name or left pictures or taunts like â&#x20AC;&#x153;chickenâ&#x20AC;? behind on the board to be wondered at by other visitors. Near the school is the historic Vang Lutheran Church, which according to the kiosk outside was chartered in 1894. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;late Gothic Revival styleâ&#x20AC;? church was then constructed in 1906. At first, services were held in Norwegian. At least some services were held in that language until the mid 1940s.

The church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Some of the first residents in the church parsonage were Pastor E.S. and Carolyn Eidesvik. After them were Pastor J.M. and Anna Langseth. A hardware store was located just south of the church and was owned by Anton Aasand from 1916 to 1944. Other historic sites in town include the Solheim Service Station, the First State Bank of Manfred/Manfred Post Office and the 1906 Hotel Johnson. And the Melby-Rogness House, the white farm house on the edge of the town that is the headquarters of the museum and the site of many exhibits about the history of the town. Melchert said the town is an educational site about what life was like in a prairie town in the middle of the 20th century. She expects interest in the town to continue to grow. A pioneer festival in July attracted more than 100 people.

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hat’s in a name? For the city of Bottineau and Bottineau County it is quite a bit. The names of both the city and the county come from Pierre Bottineau who, oddly, was born in what is now Minnesota and may never have set foot in the region that now bears his name. Historical accounts say Bottineau was born in a hunting camp near the “Grand Forks” on the eastern side of the Red River. The exact date of his birth is questioned, but most sources place it in either 1814 or 1817. The Grand Forks of Bottineau’s day was where the Red Lake River and the Red River joined. It was pure frontier. The town of Grand Forks wouldn’t be established until much later in 1871. Bottineau’s father was French-Canadian. His mother was half Dakota and half Ojibwe. He was born and raised during a time when living off the land and learning as much as possible about tracking, anticipating weather changes and recognizing landmarks was important to survival. Bottineau learned his lessons well. As a Metis, or mixed race, he would have been somewhat of an outcast on the frontier. However, Bottineau’s knowledge and abilities won over virtually all those he encountered. He became a man highly valued and sought after for his impressive guiding skills through virtually uncharted land, so much so that he became known as the “Kit Carson of the Northwest.” Bottineau became an accomplished surveyor and spoke several languages – French, English, Dakota, Ojibwe, Cree, Mandan and Winnebago among them. He proved to be invaluable to others frequenting the untamed and formidable frontier that would later become U.S. states. Minnesota was added to the union in 1858. North Dakota in 1889. Many communities that remain in existence today credit their early beginnings to efforts from Bottineau. Included in the list are Wahpeton, North Dakota and Breckenridge, Minn., which are located on opposite sides of the Red River of the North. Maple Grove, Minnesota hosts an annual celebration that includes a Pierre Bottineau parade. Visitors to that community can stroll through a restored 1854 Pierre Bottineau house, the first wood-framed home in Maple Grove. Today it is used as a centerpiece to tell about Bottineau’s exploits. It was Bottineau who often was called upon as a principal negotiator between settlers and Native Americans. He lived life on the trail and his extensive knowledge of language and customs of various tribes was credited with breaking down many barriers between people of differing backgrounds, so much so that he was sometimes referred to as “The Walking Peace Pipe.” Tom Gibson of Bottineau has portrayed Pierre Bottineau for hundreds of school groups and other gather-

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ings. Doing so required extensive research into Bottineau’s past. “If you were going to cross the prairie, he’s your man,” said Gibson. Curiously, Gibson’s research failed to find any solid evidence that Pierre Bottineau ever set foot in what is now Bottineau County. A story that appeared in the Bottineau Courant in 1984, citing both the North Dakota and Minnesota Historical Societies as sources, references Bottineau passing through the Turtle Mountain region, presumably in what is now Bottineau County, “on his way to the Missouri River where the French were establishing a trading post.” Did he? It’s possible, even probable, but it appears there is no verifiable record of him doing so. Nevertheless, Bottineau achieved enough notoriety in what would later become north-central North Dakota that it seemed fitting to put his name on a town and a county. The state Legislature did so in 1873, 16 years prior to statehood. It is known that Bottineau spent considerable time in the Upper Mississippi region of Minnesota and that he traveled and surveyed extensively along the upper reaches of the famed river. One story claims Bottineau was once the owner of Nicollet Island which is located in the Mississippi River in what is present day Minneapolis. However, believing he was holding a winning hand, bet the island in a poker game and lost. Bottineau had two wives and as many as 19 children. When he died in Red Lake Falls, Minn., in 1895 he was thought to be 78 years old. Today the heritage of Pierre Bottineau lives on with his name fittingly stamped on both a city and a county.

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he Girl Scout organization has had a presence in northwestern North Dakota since 1917, which is almost as long as it has been around nationally. A building at the Flickertail Village Museum in Stanley is dedicated to the history of the Girl Scouts and filled with uniforms, badges, handbooks and a variety of other memorabilia that offer a look at scouting over the years. A corner of the building also has a small display of Boy Scout memorabilia. Gloria Nelson of Stanley, who donated the Girl Scout collection in 1993, was a scout leader for 40 years. She began with the organization as an assistant leader in Crosby in 1949. Among items she collected over the years were banners, handbags, flags and scouting manuals and guidebooks, including a Book of the Campfire Girls. The sizable collection of uniforms represents scouting from its founding by Juliette Gordon Low in Georgia in 1912 into the 1980s. The collection includes uniforms worn by leaders and by the younger Brownies. There’s even a collection of doll clothes and T-shirts, along with U.S. Bicentennial Girl Scout quilt, handmade by Nelson from old uniforms that displays scouting badges and insignia. Gerry Nelson, a museum volunteer, said the collection has drawn representatives of the national scouting organization. “They were pretty impressed with what she had collected,” she said. The museum hopes to get the national

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ABOVE: Several Junior Scout uniforms are among the collection of Girl Scout memorabilia on display in Flickertail Village Museum in Stanley. LEFT TOP: Stanley’s Flickertail Village Museum is open from June through August. LEFT MIDDLE: A display of badges and a quilt made from old uniforms and badges is part of a Girl Scout collection. LEFT BOTTOM: A kitchen in a homestead house moved to Flickertail Village represents life on the prairie in the early 1900s. office involved in organizing and cataloging the items. The museum also has scrapbooks – mostly from the 1960s – kept by area Girl Scout troops, including Stanley, Minot and Garrison. There also are photo albums. The Girl Scout building is one of several restored buildings on the grounds of Flickertail Village Museum. The museum organized in 1977 after several residents of Ross became involved in saving the Burlington Northern depot that was about to be abandoned by the railroad. According to a history of the museum, they took the matter to the Stanley City Council, which granted permission to move the depot to land where the former Stanley airport had been located. The museum held its official opening in 1983. At that time, the depot was serving as a mini-museum. Other buildings at the museum were a schoolhouse, jail, cook car and blacksmith shop. Today the museum consists of 20 buildings replicating a frontier village of the past. Among the buildings are a bank, doctor’s office, forge and tool shop, general store, saloon, millinery, barbershop, houses and doll cottage. The school, which came from Cottonwood Township in Mountrail County, retains many of its original furnishings, including desks, filled bookcases, a coal stove, blackboard, globes and cursive writing wall cards. The museum church, the former Catholic Church in Blaisdell, also retains many of its

A former school building in Cottonwood Township contains many of its original furnishings for Flickertail Village visitors to see.

original furnishings. One of the more unique buildings is a homestead shack built in 1909. James and Evelyn Wright built the house, where three of their sons were born before the family moved away. The house continued to be lived in for a time. It had been added on to. As restored, the house is a museum of life in the early 1900s. Thousands of artifacts are on display in the museum’s buildings and grounds. Displays include a collection of quilts and of military memorabilia. A BNSF train car and caboose are among more recent donations that keep volunteers busy with restoration activities. The museum is a nonprofit organization run by a volunteer board and funded by grants and donations. The museum is open from June through August on Sunday afternoons and Thursday mornings and evenings or by appointment. It is located on the north side of U.S. Highway 2, just west of the intersection with N.D. Highway 8 in Stanley.

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he town of Medora was founded in April 1883 by a 24-year-old French nobleman, the Marquis de Mores. He named the town for his bride, the former Medora von Hoffman, daughter of a wealthy New York City banker. The valley of the Little Missouri had been the scene of varied activity long before the arrival of the Marquis. Native Americans had hunted the area for many generations, an example later followed by early white explorers and frontiersmen. Gen. Alfred Sully fought the Sioux in 1864 a few miles south of the present site of Medora, in what became known as “The Battle of the Badlands.” Lt. Col. George Custer passed through in 1876 on his fatal march west to the Little Bighorn. A military camp known as Badlands Cantonment was established in 1879 on the west side of the river to protect surveying and construction crews of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A small settlement called Little Missouri then sprang up between the Cantonment and the river.

The Marquis de Mores arrived in the valley a few weeks after the abandonment of Badlands Cantonment in early 1883. With financial backing from his fatherin-law, he founded the town of Medora east of the river, building a meat packing plant, a hotel, stores, and a large home (Chateau de Mores) overlooking his new town. The heavy influx of capital into Medora signaled the end of Little Missouri, with many Little Missouri businessmen moving east across the river to the new boom town. Despite the vision and energy of the Marquis, all of his various enterprises ended in financial failure by the fall of 1886. With their son and daughter, the Marquis and Marquise returned to France, where another son was to be born. The Marquis continued his visionary and adventurous lifestyle around the world until he was killed by native tribesmen on the Sahara Desert in Africa in June 1896. His widow Medora never remarried, and died in France in 1921. Another colorful individual drawn to this area was a young New York politician named Theodore Roosevelt. He first arrived to hunt buffalo in September 1883, immediately fell in love with the land,

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ABOVE & BELOW: Antoine de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Mores, arrived in the Badlands in 1883 and founded the town of Medora. LEFT: This is a portrait of Medora de Vallombrosa, wife of Marquis de Mores, a French nobleman who named the town of Medora for her.Photo from State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Chimney Park, situated on the western edge of Medora, once contained the Marquis de Mores’ meat packing plant that burned down in 1907 and is now the largest green space in Medora city limits. Eloise Ogden/MDN

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and invested in cattle raising. He would eventually own two large ranches – the Maltese Cross, about seven miles south of Medora, and the Elkhorn, about 35 miles north of town. In 1901 Roosevelt, at age 42, became the youngest president in U.S. history, serving until 1909. He called his years in the Badlands “the romance of my life,” and often credited his Dakota experiences with enabling him to become president. Other notable individuals have also called Medora their home. The three Eaton brothers began entertaining eastern visitors at their Custer Trail Ranch about five miles south of Medora in 1883, and the first “dude ranch” in the United States was soon in full operation. Tom Mix, who became a great western movie star, married Olive Stokes in Medora on Jan. 10, 1909. James W. Foley Jr., whose father was caretaker of the Chateau de Mores for many years, grew to manhood and taught school at Medora. It was here that he began writing poetry that would make him a nationally acclaimed literary figure and North Dakota’s poet laureate. By the time of his death in 1939, Jim Foley had published more than a dozen volumes of poetry. As the seat of Billings County, Medora con-

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tinued to be an active community following its flamboyant early years. It has always been a cattle town, with countless thousands of cattle being shipped out over the years. Eloise Ogden/MDN From the 1920s to the 1940s, three large Medora Marquise de Mores had this church, St. Mary’s coal mines operated in Catholic Church, built for the residents of Medora in 1884. the vicinity, and from 1934 to 1941 the Civilian Conservation Corps ranch cabin now sits behind the Visitor Center. In 1958, the theatrical production Ol’ Four maintained a base camp near Medora. After much landscape and restoration work Eyes, a dramatic retelling of Roosevelt’s life in by the CCC, the 128-acre Chateau de Mores the North Dakota Badlands, was initiated in the State Historic Site, including De Mores Memo- specially constructed Burning Hills Amphitherial Park, was opened to the public on Aug. 7, ater a mile west of Medora. The drama ran every summer until 1965, when the nationally 1941. The modern Interpretive Center is open renowned Medora Musical began production. daily throughout the summer, with guided This lively variety show is held every evening, tours available through the refurbished 26-room typically from early June through a week after Labor Day. Chateau. In 1962, entrepreneur Harold Schafer and The CCC also built many roads, signs, and structures within what is now Theodore Roo- his Gold Seal Company began a restoration and sevelt National Park, which was established on modernization of the old western town, develApril 25, 1947, and encompasses some 110 oping many additional attractions. Their efforts, square miles in its North and South Units. The now managed by the Theodore Roosevelt park and its modern Visitor Center are open all Medora Foundation, and the efforts of many inyear, offering many interpretive programs, hiking dependent business people, have helped make and nature trails, and a 36-mile scenic drive Medora one of the premier family entertainthrough the South Unit. Roosevelt’s Maltese Cross ment destinations in the country.

Pictured are the Samuelson House (main) and the Harmon House (below) in their new location in the Pioneer Village at Burlington.

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Pioneer Village offers historical treasures Ward County Historical Society’s museum is now located in Burlington STORY & PHOTOS By ANDREA JOHNSON Staff Writer • ajohnson@minotdailynews.com

he Ward County Historical Society, now in its new location along U.S. Highway 2 and 52 in Burlington, has long been the keeper of the county’s past. For more than 60 years, the historical society maintained its Pioneer Village Museum on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds. One of the first buildings that was gifted to the museum in 1952 or 1953 was the Imperial Ward County Courthouse. The courthouse had originally been located in Burlington, so historical society members have called it fitting that the courthouse has now been moved out to the new site at Burlington. See MUSEUM — Page 38

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Other buildings were relocated to the fairgrounds in Minot over the following decades. Though the museum was heavily damaged following the Souris River flood of 2011, the efforts of dedicated volunteers and donated items helped restore the buildings. The Soo Depot, which used to be located in Sawyer and dates back to the early 1900s, was donated to the museum by the Soo Line Railway. In the early days, trains could travel only 25 miles per hour – if the terrain was good. The museum also boasts a school house that resembles those attended by pioneer children in the earliest years of the 20th century. According to past stories in the Minot Daily News, North Prairie School No. 1 was originally located in North Prairie, about nine miles north of Velva. It was built in 1903 and was originally comprised of just one room with a central heater. In 1914, an entry was added that provided a place for the students to leave their coats and lunch pails. In 1917, a basement was added which contained a cistern. The school was in operation from 1903 to 1947. It was purchased in 1955 by Elmer Moen, who donated the school building to the historical society in 1989. Following the flood of 2011, desks, bookshelves and

other furnishings that had been in the oldest school house in Ward County were donated to the museum. The Ole Sundre Log Cabin, the first home in Ward County, was donated to the historical society in 1982 by grandchildren of the original settlers, Ole and Guri Sundre, who homesteaded southeast of Minot. The log cabin, which replaced a dugout that was originally built on the claim site, was built in 1891. The grandchildren also donated a coal stove, bedstead, and kitchen and household items to the museum. In 2015, members of the family testified before the Legislature about the meaning that the log cabin has to generations. “Anna Sundre, my namesake, grew up in the log cabin with her three brothers,” Anne Dahmen testified before the state Legislature in 2015. “The children slept in the loft upstairs – I can show my own children the marks from their fingers where they climbed the ladder to the loft. The Log Cabin represents the homestead generation – a generation much hardier than we ever could be ... the generation who brought families from all over the world to a new home, to make the best of the land they earned through hard work, the generation in which women delivered their babies in the cold of winter on the kitchen table – and raised them all in a oneroom cabin without electricity; the generation in which children were put to work, necessarily, and developed the know-how to

The Sundre Log Cabin, pictured left, was the first home in Ward County.

run a farm, and take pride in their hard work; the generation which has much to teach us about where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been and where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re headed.â&#x20AC;? The log cabin was also relocated to the new site in Burlington. Immanuel Lutheran Church, built in 1915 in McKinley Township, was moved to the village in 1967. All of the furnishings in the church were destroyed during the flood, but the inside was refurbished with furnishings from the Stenkjaer Lutheran Church. Among other historic buildings on the site are a blacksmith shop, the Samuelson House, the iconic big white farmhouse, and the Harmon House. Historical society members have said that more work will be required on the buildings, some of which need repairs, so people cannot go inside the buildings. But visitors can still view the exteriors of the buildings. The historical society owns the land where the museum has been relocated and will continue fundraising. They eventually hope to build a visitors center and a location to display classic cars. Historical society members hope this jewel of a museum will be open to the public for tours by next year.

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MAIN: Water cascades over a structure beneath a suspension bridge over the Des Lacs River as it flows through Old Settlers Park in Burlington. INSET: This monument is located near a walking entrance to Old Settlers Park in Burlington. It was erected in 1956 as a memorial to “all old settlers.”

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he land along the Des Lacs river known as Old Settlers Park is aptly named after those pioneering individuals who played an integral part in the history of this region. It was on April 30, 1883, that a group of early travelers, which included Joseph Colton, James Johnson and J.J. Rogers, arrived at the area where the Des Lacs joins the Souris River. It is very near where the Old Settlers Park is located today. Colton established “squatter’s rights” to land near the river junction. Johnson settled close by. That same year the two men erected a two-story hotel and store which became known as the “Forks.” In 1884 Burlington was founded, named after the hometown of the assistant postmaster general. Johnson had applied for, and was granted, a post office designation for Burlington in late 1883. The year 1884 saw the first printing of “The Burlington Reporter,” the forerunner of the Minot Daily News. Burlington was well on its way to becoming a prominent fixture on the map. It was in the spring of 1906 that Johnson invited members of the fledgling Ward County Old Settlers Association to a meeting in Burlington. The group camped on “No Man’s Land,” which later became the Old Settlers Park as it is known today. Burlington was the first settlement in early day Imperial Ward County. It was the county seat until 1888. Imperial Ward County would later be divided into four separate counties – Ward, Renville, Mountrail and Burke. It was in 1888 that early day Minot won an election to become the new county seat of Ward County. In 1956 the stalwart efforts of those who developed and promoted Burlington during its earliest days, and those who subsequently settled in the region and contributed to its growth, were honored by a marble monument that stands near the walking entrance to Old Settlers Park today. An inscription on the monument reads: “Erected in 1956 by the Ward County Old Settlers Association and friends as a memorial to the pioneers and all old settlers who with their faith, toil and courage laid the solid foundation of our great county of Ward.” James Johnson is listed on the monument as the first president of the association, so named in 1906. At the base of the monument, which is surrounded by an ornamental metal fence, is a plaque which reads: “Time Capsule buried July 7, 2007 to be opened July, 2057. Jeanine Kabanuk, mayor of Burlington, is fully aware of the heritage of Old Settlers Park. She told the Minot Daily News that “part of the park is not on any deed or registered in the state of North Dakota.” Hence, the designation of “No Man’s Land” remains very appropriate to this day. A frisbee golf layout built in 2017 and located near the park is named the “No Man’s Land” disc golf course.

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