Argusville: School’s Out
We paid a brief visit to Argusville High School today and found things have changed quite a bit since our last visit in 2011. The school was in a terrible state of disrepair and had been thoroughly vandalized when we last saw it, but it has since been secured and made safe. The rusting twin [...]
Building LaMoure County Courthouse
This is a vintage post card view of LaMoure County Courthouse while it was still under construction in LaMoure, North Dakota. The courthouse was constructed in 1907. Today, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The wikipedia entry for this courthouse reads, in part: The structure includes a highly-detailed, metal-covered dome with [...]
Tuttle Country School
This is a lonesome country school on County Road 3, about eight miles southeast of Tuttle in Kidder County. Unfortunately, it was boarded up tight and there was very little to see. Photos by Troy Larson and Terry Hinnenkamp, copyright Sonic Tremor Media LLC
Sterling School No. 2
We’ve seen this school referenced online as Wing School #3, however the sign above the door appears to read Sterling No. 2. The school is located closer to Wing than it is Sterling, so we wonder whether this school originally stood somewhere else and was moved to this spot, about 9 miles north of Wing. [...]
Clear Lake School
This is one of two schools in Clear Lake Township which we’ve seen referenced as simply “Clear Lake School.” This one sits near the junction of 26th Avenue SE and County Road 36, about two miles east of Tuttle in Kidder County. The other is several miles east. If you know the official name of [...]
Weiser Township School
This one-room township school is located about fifteen miles north of Interstate 94 in a very sparsely populated part of Kidder County, surrounded by farm fields for miles in every direction. We visited on Memorial Weekend of 2013, and in the coat room, we discovered a log book. The first entry on the log book [...]
Clear Lake School II
This is one of two rural schools we photographed in Clear Lake Township, and we’ve seen it referenced simply as Clear Lake School. If anyone knows the actual name of this school, we’d appreciate your insight. It rests all alone in the middle of a farmer’s field, about four miles west of Robinson in Kidder [...]
Roseville, ND
Roseville, North Dakota is a former Great Northern Railroad station at the intersection of County Roads 11 and 16 in Traill county, about ten minutes southwest of Mayville. Roseville was never much more than a loose collection of farmsteads surrounding a grain elevator. Today, the tracks have been pulled up and the grain elevator is [...]
Fort Abercrombie
The original Fort Abercrombie was constructed in 1858. It was the first military settlement in North Dakota. The fort was besieged by the Sioux for more than six weeks in 1862, an event that came to be known as the Dakota War of 1862. Four soldiers were killed and two wounded. Two reconstructed blockhouses and [...]
White Butte
White Butte is the highest point in the state of North Dakota at 3,506 feet above sea level. The peak is on private land, and is not staffed. Of the 50 state highpoints, only seven are on private land – North Dakota, Nebraska, Maryland, Louisiana, Kansas, Indiana, and Illinois. There is no development of any kind at White Butte. The closest town, [...]
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