2020 North Dakota – part 13: Pembina Co. Museum’s women behind the plow
This display of women who helped farm the land and settle North Dakota is the loudest applause to women in the nation. Here are just 11 of these women who...
2020 North Dakota – part 14: Pembina – the first settlement in ND is still active today
In the 2 museums we’ve gone through with you so far in this area, we kept coming across the town of Pembina, the earliest settlement in the Dakotas. Well, here...
2020 North Dakota – part 15: Pembina State Museum – from earliest times to the Metis culture
Our 3rd museum in the Pembina area of NE North Dakota helped us look at its early history in more depth than the previous 2 museums in Cavalier that’s just...
2020 North Dakota – part 16: Pembina State Museum – early military presence to today
We can’t believe that after this post we’ll have finished with the history of the Pembina area of ND! After leaving the museum, we went for lunch at a small...
2020 North Dakota – part 17: Turtle Mountain and the International Peace Gardens
In most U.S. states, the Turtle Mountain range—which rise 2000 feet above sea level and 300 to 400 feet above the surrounding countryside—would be called hills. But in North Dakota,...