Backoo School
Pembina County
Vacant School Building
Backoo, ND was founded in 1887. It’s population never exceeded fifty. This schoolhouse now sits among a loose cluster of farmsteads and rural businesses. It is prominently posted “No Hunting”.
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My grandfather Wilfred Beaudoin had the general store in Backoo. My grandparents lived in the house next to it. The train stopped in front of the store. I remember being there in the 1950′s and early 1960′s.