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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
April 27, 2024 - Gone Forever - State Route 3 / Red Trail
Local efforts to leverage the nostelgia into a Scenic Byway designation; or recycling a trail designator as a city street name don't do justice to its actual location. But the Mandan School District got it right... (Edits Made to 24Apr24 Version)
From the top ribbon, go to [Gone Forever] --> [Red Trail / State Route 3]
February 25, 2024 Area Landmarks - "Whispering Giants" Sculpture
Peter Toth carved an Indianhead wood sculpture in all 50 states to honor and bring awareness to plight of Native American nations; posting was updated with info on the 2012 & 2020 damage and subsequent repairs.
From the top ribbon, go to [Area Landmarks] --> [Whispering Giant Statue]
February 14, 2024 Biography Update - Ronald Erhardt
Thanks to information provided by his daughter Elizabeth, the biography of a former head coach of the New England Patriots was corrected and enhanced with more specific details of his family life.
This webpage is at [Biographies D-L] --> [Ronald Erhardt]
October 7, 2023 - Legacy Biography - James Bellows
Born into a prominent family in Pittsford, NY, he married a wife descended from English nobility and would serve in the Union Army duing the Civil War. James Bellows and his company were drawn to Dakota Territory to help with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Click the [Biographies A-C] --> [James Bellows] on the top ribbon tabs
September 15, 2022 - 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]
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]
The MHSoc's museum and office is located at 3827 30th Avenue NW; Mandan, ND 58554 Contact us at info@mandanhistory.org