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A Review of Pioneering during the Opening of the Midwest Plains, by L.M. Puffer
Collection
Identifier: SC 1217
Abstract
Typed reminiscence of pioneering days in Dickey County, N.D. of the Puffer family, who came to Port Emma Township, Dickey County, N.D. from Wisconsin in 1883. Mentions Ellendale, N.D., a brother M.H. (Myron Henry), various early Dickey County settlers, digging water wells, sod shanty construction, plowing, gathering buffalo bones, polishing buffalo horns to be used as gifts, and source of the name for Hayti, S.D.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [195-].
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Baldwin Corporation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo Folio 61
Abstract
The Baldwin Corporation was founded in 1898 and was based in Appleton, Wisconsin with large land holdings (75,000 acres) in Dickey Country, ND.
Dates:
1880 - 1930
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Clement Community Survey
Collection
Identifier: SC 878
Abstract
Survey compiled as a student project which includes historical material, information on community organizations, church activities on Clement, N.D. Also includes numerous photographs and clippings of the Clement, Ellendale, and Oakes, N.D. communities.
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Coleman Museum, Ellendale, N.D. Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2129-Oversize Photo 14
Abstract
The Coleman Museum, established in a former main street bank building in 1984, served as a repository for many materials relating to Ellendale, North Dakota history. the Ellendale
Historical Society gathered many photographs and other materials related to the town and the college. Some of these materials were used for the 125th anniversary history book and placed in drawers, boxes and folders at the museum. In 2015, the Ellendale Historical Society donated the bulk of its photograph collection...
Dates:
1880s-1990s.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Glover Farms Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 75
Abstract
Correspondence, interviews with Faith Cambellick and others, historical notes by Laura Vix, and clippings, relating to Glover Farm, bonanza farm in Dickey County, near Ellendale, N.D., founded by Samuel Glover, of Delaware, Ohio.
Dates:
1917-1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
James W. McNary Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 102
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning Baldwin Farms, his salary, introduction of alfalfa, plowing; typed copy of speech (5 leaves) entitled "What professional farm management stands for," typed copy of a newspaper clipping "Does farming pay," by A.E. Winship (1930) which mentions McNary's setting up a young unnamed Russian farmer in farming, newspaper clipping of Baldwin elevator being moved (1943), sale of the last pieces of land owned by Baldwin Corporation...
Dates:
1930-1953
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies