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Bicentennial Story #34-Stark County commissioners
Description of the first Stark County commission meeting, May 30, 1883.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #35-Dickinson to be county seat
Opinion printed in The Dickinson Press on March 31, 1883 about the choice of Dickinson as the county seat for Stark County.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #36-Stark County established
Description of the creation of Stark County in May 1883.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #37-Dickinson a trading center
Account of Dickinson as a trading center for the area.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #38-Dickinson first school board
Account of the creation of the Dickinson school district and school board in 1883.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #39-First Dickinson teachers
Description of the first school and teacher in Dickinson in 1883.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #42-Surveying Stark County
Account of the land survey of Stark County.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #43-Surveyor Veigel
History of the survey work done by Walter Reinhold Veigel (1868-1945)
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #44-Herman Breum (Taylor)
Account of the settlement of Herman L. Breum in Stark County.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #45-Richardton-Spring Valley
Description of the naming and creation of Richardton.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #46-Antelope & Taylor
History of towns named Antelope in North Dakota.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #47-Richardton-Windsor Hotel
Article in Richardton Ripples on July 28, 1883 about the opening of the Windsor Hotel in Richardton.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #48-Racial Rivalry at Richardton
Account of entanglements between German and Irish immigrant groups in Richardton in 1883.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #49-Medora Killings
Account of fake murders at a Medora saloon meant to scare travelers on the train.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #50-Silas Gregg (Gladstone)
Account of how Silas Gregg came to settle in Gladstone, ND in 1885.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #51-Ethnic groups in Stark County
Description of the different ethnic groups who settled in Stark County.
Tags: ethnic groups, oral history
Bicentennial Story #52-Richardton Robbery-1886
Account of a robbery of the Northern Pacific train at Richardton by Billy Newberry and Knut Gibson in 1886.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #53-Governor Jayne-1861
Article about Dakota Territory's first governor, Governor William Jayne.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #54-Bismarck Capitol-1883
James Bryce's account of the laying of the cornerstone for the North Dakota state capitol building in Bismarck in 1883.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #55-Indian Scare, New Salem, etc
Description of preperations made by western North Dakotans in 1890 in case of an Indian attack.
Tags: oral history