Another Look at Hanks
Clif Nelson contributed these photos of Hanks, North Dakota, a near-ghost town in Williams County — population one. Clif’s comments: “It was never much of a town, but they had coal mines north of town and grain elevatorsin the early 1900′s. My Grandfather Anton Nelson who farmed about 7 miles northwest of Hanks would haul a [...]
Pingree, ND
Stutsman County Inhabited as of 5/12 Pingree is a small town in Stutsman County, northwest of Jamestown. According to the 2010 Census, Pingree is home to 60 residents. Pingree was founded in 1881 and reached a peak population of 268 residents in 1920. We didn’t have plans to visit Pingree, but we saw a few photo [...]
Venturia, ND
Mcintosh County Inhabited as of 5/11 Venturia is located in a very sparsely populated region of the state, near the South Dakota border and just east of the Missouri river, near Ashley. When we arrived in Venturia, we were excited by the photo opportunities but we needed a break from the rain. It took us a [...]
Postcards from the Edge of North Dakota
Slope County This is a simple truth. There is no greater pleasure per penny than searching through a box of old postcards in an antique store. A little hard on the lower back if you’re wearing the wrong pair of shoes, but pleasurable none-the-less. Here are a few old postcards featuring scenes from Marmarth. CLICK [...]
Bordulac, ND
Foster County Inhabited as of 6/10 Thank you to Dustin Person and Durton Koble for contributing these photos of Bordulac. Dustin’s comments: I was really surprised by this town as well, the population is around 15-20, and the elevator and bar & grill are the only businesses in town. The white building was the Bordulac [...]
Melville: Some History
The following history of Melville (and the B&W images on this page) were submitted by Dennis Schjeldahl of Grand Forks with the following comments: So here is a History of Melville. I don’t know who wrote it orginally. It was all caps with many mis-spellings. I cleaned it up – but did my darndest to [...]
Marmarth, ND
Slope County Inhabited as of 5-07 Marmarth, ND is a Badlands town in Slope County, five miles from the Montana border. It is in the extreme southwest corner of the state, and is just a three hour drive from Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. Marmarth is the most populous town you’ll see on this [...]
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