"Bismarck History Chapters" Results

The 1898 Fire left much of Bismarck in ruin and forced the city to rebuild, propelling Bismarck...

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...

The years spanning 1878-1883 were quite possibly the most important in Bismarck’s history, cementing Bismarck’s future as...

By the new millennium, Bismarck had grown to more than 55,000 citizens. The tough retail trend that...

The 1980s opened with the recent completion of Gateway Mall and the expansion of the area’s largest...

The 1970s were a time of major change for Bismarck. The decade would see the most development...

By 1960, the city had over 27,000 citizens, and its aging public facilities were becoming inadequate. Even...

Following World War II, Bismarck experienced significant growth and development. Its population nearly doubled from 1940 to...

The stock market crashed in October 1929, causing widespread economic chaos across the United States. To make...

The next fifteen years reinvented Bismarck from an isolated frontier town into a dynamic modern city, fueled...

Prior to formal organization by the United States Government, the region including and surrounding what is today...