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Historical Markers in Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks is the county seat for Grand Forks County
Grand Forks is in Grand Forks County
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The Red River Valley is well known for long, harsh winters, But the winter of 1996-97 was unlike any before. Eight blizzards battered the area during a seemingly endless winter. The blizzards, which the Grand Forks Herald named, started with . . . — — Map (db m169712) HM
The flood showed how powerless man is against nature. It also reaffirmed the sheer strength of the human spirit.
Even before the water receded, material goods and money flowed in, gifts from across the land to the people of a small community . . . — — Map (db m169725) HM
In 2002, Mayor Michael R. Brown accepted the gracious donation by Xcel Energy of plaques chronicling the events of the Great Flood of 1997. They were originally dedicated, on the fifth anniversary of the flood, as a permanent gift to the . . . — — Map (db m169727) HM
Considered the Founder of Grand Forks, Alexander Griggs filed the first land plat in the Original Townsite in 1875. Steamboat captain and builder, Griggs was an integral part of the steamboat era. He learned his navigational skills on the . . . — — Map (db m162628) HM
On April 4, "Hannah" swept in, bringing a thick coat of ice that covered everything, followed by seven inches of wet, heavy snow, 70 mile per hour winds, and subzero temperatures.
The flood fight halted. Sandbags froze. Powerlines fell as . . . — — Map (db m169713) HM
First built as a township hall in 1917, this building became Grand Forks County's Blooming 46 school house in 1930. At a time when most Americans lived in rural areas, these one room school houses served as the primary source for education of . . . — — Map (db m183700) HM
Thomas and Almira Campbell emigrated from Perth, Ontario in 1875. They started their farm on this site with eighty acres of land and a sod shanty. In 1879, they built the log cabin that is the original part of the Campbell House. An addition was . . . — — Map (db m183663) HM
The Clifford Annex was constructed by Dinnie Brothers Construction Company during the last surge of 19th century commercial building, which replaced most of the original wood frame buildings in downtown Grand Forks. The architecture has been . . . — — Map (db m213947) HM
The rising water brought crisis. It left behand devastation.
As residents returned to their homes, they found what no television or newspaper could fully capture. Water and mud had seeped onto everything. Garbage was everywhere. The smells . . . — — Map (db m169726) HM
The Dinnie Block was constructed by Dinnie Brothers Construction Company, a firm that played a significant role in the look of the Grand Forks business district in the early 20th century. The three-story building featured locally manufactured . . . — — Map (db m169722) HM
This building was considered one of the best examples of pre-World War I commercial architecture in Grand Forks. The two story structure was built of dark red Hebron brick accented by stone. It remained largely unchanged throughout its life. . . . — — Map (db m213966) HM
Flood predictions from the National Weather Service continued to rise, and a community struggled to keep up. As residents battled the Red River, city officials fought to keep people safe. New and strange sounds engulfed the cities; civil defense . . . — — Map (db m169717) HM
Fannie Mahood was born in Wykoff, MN and moved to Dakota Territory in 1880. She married Frank Heath in 1881. On a 160 acre tree claim west of Grand Forks, they struggled with alkaline soil and drying winds of the treeless prairie. By 1920 their . . . — — Map (db m183665) HM
The battle lost. The cities evacuated. By Saturday, April 19, the community was devastated. Shock turned to disbelief when, at 4:15 p.m. a fire was reported in the downtown Grand Forks Security Building, which stood at this site.
Amid . . . — — Map (db m169724) HM
Nicholas Hoffman and August Loon built this log cabin in 1868 on a site that is now the 500 block of Reeves Drive. In 1870 the cabin became Grand Forks' first post office, with Sanford Cady as postmaster. In the 1880s the cabin was moved in . . . — — Map (db m183667) HM
On this date, ten years after the Flood of 1997, the City of Grand Forks proudly marks the completion of its flood protection project. As the nation watched, the people and property of Grand Forks were devastated by the Flood of 1997. The . . . — — Map (db m169729) HM
The Grand Forks flood of 1997 affected every neighborhood in the city but few knew the degree of devastation experienced by the Lincoln Drive neighborhood.
The waters of the Red River proved to be overwhelming in the spring 1997. . . . — — Map (db m169784) HM
Swedish born engineer Carl Strandlund invented the Lustron Home to ease the housing shortage that followed World War II. Strandlund conceived an all-steel prefabricated home that could be mass produced and marketed across the nation. Manufacturing . . . — — Map (db m183701) HM
Designed by a renowned Grand Forks architect, Joseph Bell DeRemer, this three-story colonial red Harvard brick structure was trimmed with Bedford stone. It was built by the Dinnie Brothers Construction Company and connected to the Security . . . — — Map (db m169721) HM
The streets of this neighborhood in Grand Forks are the first concrete pavements constructed in North Dakota. They were built of portland cement concrete in 1910 and ushered in the era of modern roads and streets in the state. A distinctive feature . . . — — Map (db m183671) HM
From the 1820s to the 1860s, oxcarts were used to carry trade goods between St. Paul and Fort Garry (present-day Winnipeg). The goods were carried from St. Paul, northwest through Minnesota then north through the Red River Valley to Fort Garry.
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Step by difficult step, the people of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks began to rebuild. The priority was to make the cities safe, sanitized, and secure. Water treatment, electrical services, and communications were the first to be restored.
. . . — — Map (db m169728) HM
When residents left their homes, few expected to be gone long. Yet six weeks passed before the last neighborhoods reopened and every resident could assess the extent of the damage. In the meantime, news media told a grim story and painful reality . . . — — Map (db m169723) HM
Built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the building was constructed by the Security Improvement Company. The Security Building exemplified the well-designed commercial buildings of the 1800s' Great Dakota Boom. Five stories tall, . . . — — Map (db m169719) HM
Remembering the record flood of 1979, when the Red River crested at 48.8 feet - more than 20 feet above its 28 foot flood stage - Grand Forks and East Grand Forks started raising the levees on both sides of the river.
By March, thousands . . . — — Map (db m169714) HM
The Flood of 1997 is often associated with downtown Grand Forks and the neighborhoods near the Red River. Those areas were indeed devastated, but the 1997 flood affected all of Grand Forks. This site in University Park, which is over a mile and . . . — — Map (db m169791) HM
On the morning of Friday, April 18, the river found a path into Lincoln Park. Water rushed down Lincoln Drive and swamped the levee from behind, and by late afternoon only the rooftops peeked out above the murky, swirling water. Floodwaters . . . — — Map (db m169716) HM
You are standing at the site of the former Security Building, the first structure consumed by the devastating fire that broke out at the height of the 1997 flood of the Red River of the North. This combination of fire and flood - or "Hell and . . . — — Map (db m169711) HM
