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

Help volunteer members record and preserve history with a small donation via PayPal to support the Mandan Historical Society.  Your donation will be split evenly between the Endowment Fund and current support for the Society's activities. 

50% Endowment Fund 50% Operating Fund
What's New at the Website!
To assist frequent visitors to our website, our Webmaster would like to call specific attention to following recent changes. 

Note:
  Changes to meeting and event schedules are frequent and will not be listed here.

Please provide comments and suggested changes to our webmaster either by placing suggestions in the guestbook on the home/[Welcome] page, or via email at webmaster@mandanhistory.org

September 15, 2021 - Outdoor Display Construction

Work is underway on a outdoor exhibit about the former First Street Federal Building / Post Office / Library. Its USGS benchmark will be added in a brick plinth; the brick donated by Hebron Brick Company. 
The exhibit is expected to be complete Fall 2022.

From the top ribbon, go to [Gone Forever]  --> [First St Federal Building]

June 29, 2021 - Legacy Biography Update - C. Edgar Haupt

The biography of Charles Edgar Haupt, a founder of the First National Bank of Mandan and future partner with the Marquis De Mores in Medora was updated to include information on his first wife and child and the reason for his career change and greatest success as an Episcopalian minister.

From the top ribbon, go to [Biographies D-L]  --> [C Edgar Haupt]


December 8, 2021 - First Presbysterian Church
 
A portrait of the Reverend Isaac Sloan (first pastor of the church) and other building related details were added to the information posted on the webpage from the June 1981 Morton County Centennial Edition of the Bismarck Tribune.

To review, go to [Area Landmarks] -> [First Presbysterian Church]

September 29, 2021 Legacy Biography - B.W. Shaw

A biography of Benjamin Whitworth Shaw courtesy of the Shaw-Ford family.  B.W. Shaw came to Mandan in 1881, was instrumental in setting up multiple civic organizations including Greenwood Cemetery. A local attorney for over 30 years and also served as a Morton County judge.
 
This webpage is at [Biographies S-Z] --> [Benjamin Shaw]

September 2, 2021 Legacy Biography - Philomena Yunck

Philomena was more than a pioneer's wife and mother to six (6).  She was a businesswoman and  extraordinary cook that with her husbands founded and ran a boarding house for railroad bridge workers and later a hotel in downtown Mandan.

From the top ribbon, go to [Biographies S-Z]  --> [Philomena Yunck]

August 25, 2021 Expanded Merchant's Hotel Webpage

Additional information on the notable figures who stayed at the hotel as well as additional information on their proprietors was added.
 
Click the [Gone Forever] --> [Merchants Hotel) on the top ribbon tabs

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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