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Dale Niewoehner displays his four-ton bell collection in a 30-foot-tall steel tower outside his funeral home in Rugby (pop. 2,939).

first appeared: 7/14/2002

In Medora (pop. 100), a pitchfork fondue is held nightly from June through September. Cowboys stab steaks on pitchforks and cook them in cauldrons of boiling oil.

first appeared: 7/7/2002

Bowbells (pop. 406) was named by British stockholders of the Soo Line Railroad after the Bow Bells, the cockney area of London.

first appeared: 6/30/2002

The state’s oldest building is an 1843 log trading post in Walhalla (pop. 1,057) built by fur trader Norman Kittson.

first appeared: 6/23/2002

The North Dakota State Forest Service, headquartered in Bottineau (pop. 2,336), manages 13,278 acres of forestland.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

In 1933, state Rep. Minnie Craig of Esmond (pop. 159) became the first woman in the United States to serve as Speaker of the House in a state legislature.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

The J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge near Upham (pop. 155) is home to 250 bird species.

first appeared: 6/2/2002

A 50-foot-tall pyramid of empty oil cans is all that remains of a 1930s gas station and luncheonette, the Can Pile, in Casselton (pop. 1,855).

first appeared: 5/26/2002

In 1987, state lawmakers made English the official language, requiring state business to be conducted in English. North Dakota is among 26 states with some form of official English law.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

Each year, graduating high school seniors write their class year in rocks on hillsides along Highway 52 near Kenmare (pop. 1,081). The cherished roadside tradition began in 1945.

first appeared: 5/12/2002

After serving as North Dakota’s 10th governor from 1907 to 1913, John Burke served as U.S. treasurer from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

David Houston of Hunter (pop. 326) invented the roll-film camera mechanism in 1867 and later sold the rights to Eastman Kodak Co.

first appeared: 4/28/2002

Based in Carrington (pop. 2,268), Dakota Growers Pasta Co. is the third- largest pasta manufacturer in North America, with the capacity to produce 440 million pounds a year.

first appeared: 4/21/2002

Velva (pop. 1,049) long has been known as “The Star City” because early cartographers marked the southernmost point along the Souris River with a star before the town was settled by European immigrants in the early 1880s.

first appeared: 4/14/2002

Howard, Willis, and Alden Eaton gave birth to the dude ranch industry in 1879 when they began charging guests room and board to extend visits to their horse and cattle ranch near Medora (pop. 100).

first appeared: 4/7/2002

North Dakota ranks first among the states in sunflower oil production, making about 44 percent of the nation’s total last year.

first appeared: 3/31/2002

With a population of 642,200 in 2000, North Dakota is the nation’s third least populated state.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

The state’s leading export to Canada in 2000 was $36 million worth of front-end loaders.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

The first newspaper printed in North Dakota was the Frontier Scout, published at Fort Union on July 7, 1864. The former trading post now is a national historic site about 25 miles southwest of Williston (pop. 12,512).

first appeared: 3/10/2002

One of North Dakota’s nicknames comes from the flicking motion of the tail of the Richardson’s ground squirrel, which inhabits much of the Flickertail State.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

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