Joliette, ND
Pembina County
Inhabited as of 7/06
Joliette, ND is in Pembina County, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border. It was founded on a different site to the south-east in 1879, and moved to its present location sometime in the 1880′s.
It was named after Joliette, Quebec, the hometown of one of the areas first settlers. Joliette presently has a handful of residents.
Joliette reportedly had a peak population of 319 citizens in the 1930s, but that quickly declined to less than 40 by the 1960s.
Signs of Joliette’s prosperity are everywhere, including the sidewalks which are overgrown and cracked, but still present as a reminder of days gone by.
Joliette’s residents were very friendly and gladly allowed us to photograph their town.
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My aunt grew up there. Her name is Lena Paul. Thank you for sharing this about her hometown!
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Lots of Switzers’ old house.
My Grandparents, John and Rose Fritz lived across the tracks. Later my Grandpa lived across from the Catholic church with my Uncle Ade and Aunt THelma. My sister and I loved to go Joliette when we were kids, especially to Herb Kukuk’a grocery store.
good friends of the fritz family.
The white building in the second photo from the top is interesting – the roof and gable of the building looks like it was maybe a church, and the bottom looks like a barn, the windows are not from a church. Does anyone know the history of this building?
Three of the pictures are of the Switzer/Storms house, one is of the barn, and the little house are all on the same property.
One of the pictures is of the Town Hall. One is of sidewalks that was around the town at one time.
One is of the Catholic Church that my Uncle Ade Fritz bought after they no longer had Mass in Joliette. They had to go to Pembina to church. My Uncle sold the windows, pews that was left in the church. He used the building for storage and had replaced the original doors.
4 OF THE HOUSES ARE SWITZER/STORM HOUSES.
town hall now a horse barn, and the old church not so much as mowed any more. a-lot of things changing in jolliette. being moved out, and soon to be tore down, its a bummer.
What is being moved and what will be toren down? Your name sounds familiar but how do/did you know the Fritz family? My Mom was a Fritz.
Hi everyone, My grandmother was born there and this summer I travelled there to go see the cemetary to look for relatives (I know that sounds strange, but I am working on my family history). Apparently there are 2 cemetaries there, does anyone know where they are? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I think one of them is down the highway, if you are heading towards Grand Forks its on the right hand side of the highway a few miles away from exit 203, Its tiny.
The only cemetary we are aware of is straight West of Joliette. to get there go 1 mile S, 1 mile West, 1 mile North and then East about 3/4 mile . My Uncle is buried there and we go there 2x a year to visit his grave site
Who is your Grandmother?
My grandmother was a Fontaine. She is not buried there, but we believe some of her relatives are.
Joliette, ND was A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK “sorry for the caps I miss it” I rememeber the gray house and having parties there. We were ok to have 2 brews and only 2 brews. No one got out of hand and left at a decent time. Girls from then then were real ladies and acted like a lady not now the way girls act now which I will not say. The men acted like gentelmen no one asked for another beer after there two were gone I did give my brews away so some one got 3 brews instead of 2.
I got some wonderful pictures of Joliette today, I would love for you to use them on the site here.
Contact me at Natasha6523@yahoo.com
Natasha
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