10 Photos That Show How Different North Dakota Looked 100 Years Ago
It’s hard to believe that 100 years ago we were about to enter the 1920s. North Dakota has changed a lot since that time. It’s been through multiple oil booms. It’s seen towns rise and fade away or even become large cities. North Dakotans experienced droughts and floods and extreme weather of all kinds. Needless to say, this state has been through quite a history!
Throughout all that, photographs have been taken to document these changes. Take a look at these vintage photographs from places around North Dakota that show you just how different this state looked back then:
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1. The Grand Forks County courthouse and a few shops along the road captured in this photograph from 1915.
7. Photograph of a mill in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Dated 1922, out of a book titled Beginners Civics.
8. A true Mandan earth lodge photographed in North Dakota in 1908. Similar lodges can be seen today at places like the On-A-Slant Village in Mandan, North Dakota.
Some of these are vastly different, while others still show through to today! Do you have any historic family photos or similar of North Dakota from this long ago? Feel free to share them!
We’ve explored other decades in North Dakota’s history. Check out the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and the 1970s for a trip back in time.
Leah moved to North Dakota when she was 12 years old and has traveled from the Red River Valley to the badlands and many places in between. She loves small-town life and currently enjoys living on a small farm in the ND prairie. She's always had a passion for writing and has participated in novel writing challenges such as NaNoWriMo multiple times. Her favorite part about this job is recognizing small businesses that deserve a boost and seeing the positive affect her articles can have on their traffic, especially in rural areas that might have otherwise gone overlooked.
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