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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: RI-17
Item: 00021
Title: Description with City Hall and High School photographs Lidgerwood (N.D.)
Date: 1915
Creator: Movius, Gilbert H
Inscription/Marks: [on caption on left side of photograph] Col. 32-RI/17-21 [text on page] Lidgerwood [Richland County, North Dakota] is unquestionably the best town on the Bismarck branch of the Soo Line (M., St. P. & S. Ste. Marie Ry.) and on the Aberdeen branch of the Great Northern. It is an organized city, having a population of 1250 (1,029 in U. S. Census of 1910) situated in the Red River Valley, a country famous for its rich soil and agriculture. Among the things that go to make the City what it is and which show its enterprise and push are: Three banks, two National and one State, with a combined capital and surplus of $133,000.00 and deposits of over half a million dollars; a municipal water supply system fed by eight artesian wells; an electric light and power plant giving day and night service; a splendid new city hall, picture of which is given above; a high school of the first class under state high school board regulations; seven churches; a flour mill with the capacity of 350bbls. Per day; nine elevators for the reception of grain; two opera halls, one devoted to motion pictures; four rural delivery routes out of the city each day; nineteen rural telephone lines which reach every farm within a radius of 50 miles; a hospital modern in every respect; an automobile garage that has no superior in the state for size or equipment; a large number of fine brick buildings, finely stocked stores and enterprising merchants; two newspapers, one of which has a state-wide fame for its comment on state affairs; miles of cement side-walk; tree-lined, electric-lighted streets, with a “White Way” on Main Street—the first one in the state and unknown until recently in other towns of double its size; the neatest, most attractive and best business town in this rich territory.
Summary: Description of Lidgerwood (N.D.) copied from a book with photographs of the City Hall and High School building. Text reads: Lidgerwood [Richland County, North Dakota] is unquestionably the best town on the Bismarck branch of the Soo Line (M., St. P. & S. Ste. Marie Ry.) and on the Aberdeen branch of the Great Northern. It is an organized city, having a population of 1250 (1,029 in U. S. Census of 1910) situated in the Red River Valley, a country famous for its rich soil and agriculture. Among the things that go to make the City what it is and which show its enterprise and push are: Three banks, two National and one State, with a combined capital and surplus of $133,000.00 and deposits of over half a million dollars; a municipal water supply system fed by eight artesian wells; an electric light and power plant giving day and night service; a splendid new city hall, picture of which is given above; a high school of the first class under state high school board regulations; seven churches; a flour mill with the capacity of 350bbls. Per day; nine elevators for the reception of grain; two opera halls, one devoted to motion pictures; four rural delivery routes out of the city each day; nineteen rural telephone lines which reach every farm within a radius of 50 miles; a hospital modern in every respect; an automobile garage that has no superior in the state for size or equipment; a large number of fine brick buildings, finely stocked stores and enterprising merchants; two newspapers, one of which has a state-wide fame for its comment on state affairs; miles of cement side-walk; tree-lined, electric-lighted streets, with a “White Way” on Main Street—the first one in the state and unknown until recently in other towns of double its size; the neatest, most attractive and best business town in this rich territory.
Red ID: PH_I_119653 Image ID: 170903 Image Notes: 00032-RI-17-00021

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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