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Tuesday night, the Bismarck City Commission approved making the Main Avenue “road diet” conversion permanent, between Mandan...

Doctor Henry Rinaldo Porter was a pioneer physician and druggist. He is probably best known as the only...

Bismarck was founded as the town of Edwinton in 1872 by the Northern Pacific Railway at the...

In the year following its founding, 1873 marked several key developments for the fledgling town… the first...

Fort Abraham Lincoln (originally Fort McKeen) was a pioneer military fort located at the confluence of the Heart and...

Doctor Benjamin Franklin Slaughter (1842-1896), who usually went by the nickname Ben or Frank, was the post...

W.B. Shaw was a pioneering merchant who operated what was likely Bismarck’s first retail store… Shaw &...

Carleton and Burleigh City (AKA Burleighton) were early tent cities that were established in 1872 during the...

Jerry Plants was a pioneer Bismarck resident. He was the night watchman for the Northern Pacific Railroad...

Doctor Fannie Almara (Dunn) Quain was a pioneering medical practitioner, and wife to Doctor Eric Quain – co-founder...

John Platt Dunn III was a pioneering Bismarck businessman and pharmacist, and father to the pioneering Doctor...

Doctor Eric Peer Quain was a pioneering medical practitioner, and husband to Doctor Fannie Quain – North Dakota’s...

Asa Fisher was a pioneering businessman, whose former residence served as the State Governor’s Mansion from 1893-1960. Fisher...

John K. Wetherby was an early pioneer, lawyer, and real estate investor. Wetherby was the son of...