These 11 Photos Of North Dakota From The Early 1900s Are Beyond Fascinating
North Dakota is a relatively young state when you look at the numbers, so luckily a lot of the state’s history is well documented with photographs. You can truly get a glimpse back in time to the early days of the Peace Garden State. It was when the cities were exploding with growth and farms were quick to come up, but also quick to die off due to things like major droughts. It was a prosperous time, but also rough. And it laid the groundwork down to wait North Dakota is today. Here are 11 photographs from those early days that are beyond fascinating:
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1. This photograph shows what was a typical North Dakota farm at the time in the 1910s.
8. This photo taken in 1920 shows former North Dakota governor Lynn Frazier at a farm. Frazier was the first governor in the country to ever be recalled, which happened just a year after this was taken.
North Dakota has been a state for over 125 years now. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what it is like to look back onto now in a century’s time? What do you think will be different then?
This state’s history runs from that time long ago all the way to history being made today. Discover more recent, yet still mesmerizing photographs of decades past in North Dakota during the 1970s.
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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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