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Verendrye, North Dakota

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Abandoned Falsen School

Verendrye was a historic unincorporated community in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States, located approximately eight miles (13 km) northwest of Karlsruhe and 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Velva within Falsen Township.[1] Although classified by the USGS as a populated place, it is considered a ghost town.

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History

David Thompson Memorial

The community was first known as Falsen, founded in 1912 by Norwegian settlers, who named it for Norwegian statesman Christian Magnus Falsen.[2] Falsen was also the name of the station on the Great Northern Railway.[3] The post office was established with the name Falsen in 1913, but the name was changed in 1925 to honor Pierre de la Verendrye, an early French-Canadian explorer who was said to be the first non-Native American person to tour the North Dakota prairies.[4][5] The population of Falsen in 1920 was 75.[2] The population of Verendrye in 1938 was 100, but when the railroad switched to diesel locomotives, it no longer needed to make regular stops at Verendrye for water and coal. This was the beginning of Verendrye's final decline, with the post office closing in 1965, and the final residents moved away in 1970.[6][7] A farmstead now occupies the townsite, and the last remnant of Verendrye, the crumbling remains of the Falsen School, sits in a corner of the property.

Along with Norwegians, Falsen was originally settled by German-Russians from the villages of Kandel and Selz in the Ukraine.[8][better source needed]

A monument to the later North West Company fur trader and explorer, David Thompson, erected by the Great Northern Railway in 1925,[5] remains on a hilltop overlooking the former townsite.

The Verendrye Electric Cooperative was established here in 1939 but relocated to Velva in 1941.[9]

Geography

Verendrye is located in the Mouse River Valley along the route of the BNSF Railway.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Verendrye". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. February 13, 1980. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Writers Project Lists County Towns". Mouse River Farmers Press. September 5, 1940. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
  3. ^ Wick, Douglas A. "Falsen (Mchenry County)". North Dakota Place Names. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  4. ^ Williams, Mary Ann Barnes (1961). Origins of North Dakota Place Names. The Bismarck Tribune. p. 158. OCLC 431626.
  5. ^ a b "The Upper Missouri Historical Expedition" (PDF). Minnesota History. Minnesota Historical Society. 6 (3): 213, 305. 1925. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2012. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  6. ^ Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration (1938). North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State. American Guide Series. p. 274. ISBN 9781603540339.
  7. ^ Wick, Douglas A. "Verendrye (Mchenry County)". North Dakota Place Names. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  8. ^ Sallet, Richard (1974). Russian-German Settlements in the United States. Fargo, North Dakota: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. ISBN 9780911042184.
  9. ^ "About Us". Verendrye Electric Cooperative. Retrieved April 16, 2012.

External links

48°07′16″N 100°44′21″W / 48.12111°N 100.73917°W / 48.12111; -100.73917


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