MANDAN Historical Society

Working to Preserve & Promote Mandan's Heritage since 2004

Welcome

Membership

Activities

Ag Stn Centennial

History Harvest

TR-Coe Exhibit

WWII Exhibit

Museum & Office

Area History

Book: "Mantani"

The 1880s

Mandan Rodeo / Fair

School System History

The 1890s

The 1900s

1901 Pan Am Expo

1903 TR Visit to NDak

The 1910s

1910 Spring Flood

1911 Fair & Airplane Demo

1912 TR Whistle-Stop

The 1920s

Prohibition in Mandan

Mail Order Kit Homes

The 1930s

FDR Visit August 1936

The 1940s

The 1950s

1958 Lincoln Stamp FDC

Custer Drama / Trail West

The 1960s

The 1970s

The 1980s

The 1990s

1st of the 21st

2010-Present

Area Landmarks

Cary Bldg - Mandan Drug

CCC Camp Chimney

Christ the King Church

Collins Av Civic Bldg

First Lutheran Church

First National Bank Bldg

First Presbyterian Church

Great Plains Academy

Great Plains Expermt Stn

Lewis & Clark Hotel

Mandan Hill

Mandan Theatre

MV Produce Warehouse

Methodist Church

NP Beanery

NP "Colonial" RR Depot

NPRR Freighthouse

NP Rail High Bridge

Roughrider Statue

St Joseph Church

WWar Memorial Bldg

Youth Correctional Center

Gone Forever

Central School

Collins Ave Courthouse

Cummins Building

Deaconess Hospital

Eielson Field

Emerson Inst/Opera House

First St Federal Building

Havana Club

Hotel Nigey

InterOcean Hotel

Liberty Memorial Bridge

Mandan Creamery & Produce

Mandan Flour Mill

Merchants Hotel

NP "Queen Anne" Depot

Original Passenger Depot

Palace Theatre

Peoples' Hotel

Rock Haven

Topic Theatre

Young's Tavern

Heritage Homes

Altnow-Smith Home

Dunlap-Harris Home

Ellis-Uden Home

Freeburg-Esser Home

Lyon-Weigel Home

McGillic Home

Olson-Brick Home

Parkins-Cooley Home

Stutsman-Wyatt Home

Swanson-Reichman Home

Welch-Ness Home

Endowment Fund

Genealogy Links

Biographies A-C

J D Allen

Franklin Anders

Richard Baron

James Bellows

George Bingenheimer

Margaret Bingenheimer

Philip Blumenthal

Elijah Boley

Frank Briggs

Leo Broderick

William Broderick

Frank Bunting

Lyman Cary

James Clark

Henry Coe

Viola Boley Coe

Daniel Collins

Elizabeth Custer

George Custer

Biographies D-L

Alice Dahners

Henry Dahners

C E V (Charles) Draper

Esther Davis

Tony Dean

Joseph Devine

Ronald Erhardt

John Forbes

Palma Fristad

Gilbert Furness

Aloysius Galowitsch

Frederic Gerard

Zalmon Gilbert

Charles Grantier

James Hanley Jr

James Hanley Sr

Mary Harris

C Edgar Haupt

Michael Lang

William Langer

Albert Lanterman

William Lanterman

Richard Longfellow

Rolland Lutz

Hiram Lyon

Biographies M-R

George Marback

Gary Miller

Lee Mohr

Margaret Naylor

John Newton

Anton Ness

John Osterhouse

George Peoples

Arthur Peterson

Nels Romer

Hoy Russell

Walton Russell

Antonie Rybnicek

Ervin Rybnicek

Hynek Rybnicek

Biographies S-Z

Margaret Schaaf

George Shafer

Benjamin Shaw

William Simpson

Anna Knox Stark

Mary Stark

Benjamin Stephenson

J O Sullivan

John Sullivan

Era Bell Thompson

Andrew E Thorberg

Ida Thorberg

C L Timmerman

George Toman

Earle Tostevin

Edwin A Tostevin Sr

Edwin D Tostevin Jr

Walter Tostevin

Felix Vinatieri

A B Welch

Levon West

Frank Wetzstein

Harry Wheeler

Philomena Yunck

View Collections

Artifacts - Miscellanous

Newspapers

Pottery and Glass

Photos - Buildings

Photos - Downtown

Photos - Floods

Photos - People

Photos - Rail and Trains

What's New

Genealogy Links
While many of our members are involved in tracing their family history, other organizations in the region are better suited to assisting amaetur and professional genealogy researchers in locating records on their ancestors.  A list of resources is provided here to assist our webpage visitors.
Tracing Your Family Tree? Brochure Available

The Morton Mandan Public Library staff has compiled an "Explore Your Roots @ The Library" brochure which lists books and magazines available at the library that might be helpful to anyone researching their family tree. Also included are websites, addresses and phone numbers of the local historical societies.

Copies of the brochures can be picked up at the Morton Mandan Public Library or at the Mandan Historical Society Museum.  The brochure is free.

Or download a .pdf version of the brochure from the hyperlink to the right.
Geneology Brochure 2009
ND GenWeb Project

The paid genealogical service Ancestry.com sponsors a free genology internet portal Roots Web with links to a variety of of internet resources.  The North Dakota specific website is known as the ND GenWeb Project and the Morton County specific webpage can be located at the hyperlink below.

To access the webpage, click on
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmorton/
North Dakota Death Index

Search death records via the North Dakota Department of Vital Statistics' webpage. 

HINT: while a date of death is required to conduct a search, consider using sequential periods of time up to ten years long when the actual date of death is unknown.  The site also explains how family members can obtain copies of a death certificate from the department.

Click on this hyperlink 
https://secure.apps.state.nd.us/doh/certificates/deathCertSearch.htm
Mandan Union Cemetery Records

The City of Mandan has posted its information on graves on its website. Note that the information is in the process of being updated, expecially for information prior to 1930. A map of the grave locations is also provided. Updated versions are available for download at www.cityofmandan.com under [City Departments] => [Mandan Union Cemetery].
Union Cemetery Records
 
Union Cemetery Map
Bismarck-Mandan Historical and Geneological Society

BMHGS promotes and encourages active interest in genealogy and history at the local, state, and international level including the retrieval and preservation of historical and genealogical records. It's members serve as resource, advocate, and coordinator for retrieval and preservation of historical and genealogical records.

Click on the hyperlink to transfer to their webpage at 
http://www.bmhgs.com

The MHSoc's museum and office is located at 3827 30th Avenue NW; PO Box 1001; Mandan, ND 58554
Contact us at info@mandanhistory.org


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