2020 North Dakota – part 11: statehood brings more changes
Becoming a territory in 1861 and then a state in 1889 formalized the status of North Dakota. Unable to figure out a capital location that would satisfy everyone, the territory...
2020 North Dakota – part 12: Pembina Co. Museum fills in the blanks
After learning so much from the Icelandic State Park’s museum across the highway, we went to Pembina County’s museum to fill in the blanks and add to what we’ve learned....
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...