Bicentennial Story #95-Taft-Peaceful Valley

Bicentennial Story #95-Taft-Peaceful Valley

History of Peaceful Valley Township, south of Belfield, ND.

9/10/1975

Bea Peterson

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Peaceful Valley, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Dickinson abandoned its first name, Peaceful Valley, but two decades later a township 20 miles south of Belfield called itself Peaceful Valley. Numerous settlers took up every quarter in the area, and in 1906 Bill and Floyd Bard built a store there which also served as a Post Office, called Taft. A school was built in 1909; a community church and a hall followed, and lively social activity centered around these places for a few boom years. But hard times caused many to depart, and today only a few large farms remain. The Peaceful Valley cemetery with its 48 graves, is a mute reminder of the early settlement, where on one 4th of July a crowd of about 500 people gathered at the community hall.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 95, prepared by Bea Peterson for the Belfield News.

Belfield News; April 12, 1962.

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Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107