Lunds Valley, ND
Mountrail County
Inhabited as of 5/10
Lunds Valley is one of those towns where we showed up a little too late. There is one original building still standing, plus the grain elevator. Lunds Valley was a rural post office and the population of the town never exceeded 100.
There is so little of Lunds Valley left, we would love to see some pictures of what it looked like back in the day. Lunds Valley is sometimes spelled as one word, Lundsvalley.
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This is the remains of the former Lunds Valley school, destroyed by fire.
The sidewalk in front of this foundation is the only one in Lunds Valley that hasn’t crumbled.
All photos by Troy and Rat, copyright SonicTremorMedia.com
Very nice pictures. Looks like you guys had a good trip! I really like the pictures of Lunds Valley, they’re beautiful but the place makes me feel hauntingly lonely for some reason. Though you say you got there too late, you definitely still managed to capture the feel of the town. There may not be many buildings remaining but the ones that are are at least quite photogenic!! Great job once again!
PS the only thing I’ve been wondering while looking through all your new galleries is this: are you not getting just covered in ticks going through these areas?? I don’t know how it is anywhere else but the ticks are so bad here (Bismarck) that I managed to have one crawling on my pants while on a bike trail IN TOWN! Not fun.
Yes, we are getting covered in ticks! The price of admission I guess. – troy
I have a perfect picture of the school in Lunds Valley as it once stood. If you would like to see the picture I could email it to you.
We’d love to see it.
the foundation is where the school was in Lunds Valley
My Great Granpa was a Lutheran Minister in Lunds Valley and is buried in the cemetery there along with my Great Granma and Great Aunt. Very cool to see this. I remember my Granma taking me there YEARS ago when I was little during Memorial Weekend – but I cannot remember much about it.
Guess what?? I live there right now I can see the old LundsValley building right by my house,so people still do live there just to tell you!! I enjoyed the pictures!
Laney, My husbands parents and family grew up in Lund’s Valley. They migrated to the west coast about 60 years ago, give or take. How long have you lived there. Do you have many of the old pictures? We have a few in an old album. Would love to communicate with you concerning the exchange of information. Oh, by the way, the family name is of course, Lund.
LOL… please reply to the address if you are interested.
Wendy
I have lived in Lund’s Valley my whole life. (So has my Dad) We would love to see any old photos you may have. My family & I love old Lund’s Valley history!
The pictures were great…The Lunds Valley School was really a beautiful old structure….with a library! We had Christmas programs performing on the stage…we really worked hard to make those productions memorable…they were to the kids anyway! Thanks for the memories! Looking forward to seeing pix of the old school building. I hauled grain to the elevator! Nothing better than a cold coke in a green glass bottle coming out of a bright red coke machine!!! MEMORIES
I remember that coke machine, my father managed the elevator in the 70′s
When she was quite young, my Mother, LaVonne Nelson, taught at the Lund’s Valley School. She has talked about it recently.
My father Willard Olsen managed the elevator in Lunds Valley for several years in the 70′s-lots of fond memories of Lunds Valley
Enjoyed your site. Our family is originally from this town. I am looking forward to a visit
to see the old homestead.
I love the pics of my old town the school pics are great the basen sitting by the burned out school building
love the site and thge town I went to school there
My grandfather lived there before coming to Washington state. I have a calendar plate from there dated 1929. My maiden name was Lund.