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 [...]
More Bentley
These photos have been in our archive since we visited Hettinger County in 2007 and we are posting them here for the first time. The church shown below has since partially collapsed. Bentley was founded by Arthur A. Bentley who, after moving from Eden Valley, Minnesota, started a photography business in Fargo in the 1890s. [...]
Nome School: Then and Now
Nome School in 1919 and 2005. Check out the rest of our Nome, North Dakota material here. Animation by Troy Original content copyright Sonic Tremor Media LLC
Vintage Nome Postcards
We found a couple of vintage Nome postcards at an antique store not too long ago, including a postcard of the now-abandoned Nome School which we snapped on a whim while passing through Nome in 2005. We had to make some guesses on this card due to the handwriting — This postcard was sent on [...]
Balfour Public School
This is the former Balfour Public School. It was built sometime between 1899 and 1910. Other than that, we know very little about this school, or what happened to it. If you know more about this school, we would invite you to click on the photo below and add your comments on the ensuing page. [...]
Fargo College
This is the long gone Fargo College in Fargo, North Dakota. The building shown in this postcard, Jones Hall, was completed in 1890. By 1915, there were two more buildings flanking this one, Dill Hall, and the Fargo College Library, a Carnegie Library which was dedicated by former President Theodore Roosevelt. The school shown here [...]
Acton School
This is Acton School in Acton Township, Walsh County. David Schultz sent in these photos with the following comments: “Not sure if you would be interested in these pictures of the Acton School. First classes held 1883 Last term was 1956. My Mom attended this school and my Grand Mother taught at it. School was getting in pretty [...]
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 [...]
The Remains of Munster Schoolhouse
This burned-out shell of Munster schoolhouse is all that remains of a town that never really was. Munster was a Great Northern Railroad loading station, established in 1912. There was a grain elevator, and this school. The grain elevator was torn down some years ago. You can see a 2009 photo of the school before [...]
Orrin, ND
R. David Adams contributed these photos of Orrin, ND, a near ghost town in Pierce county, west of Fillmore. We checked census records going back to 1920 and found no listing for Orrin. As we’ve seen time and time again, Orrin began it’s final decline with the closure of the elevator, which happened in 1965. [...]
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