Traill County (N.D.) -- Agriculture -- Farms and farming.
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Dalrymple Farms Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 67
Abstract
Correspondence, including letter (1880) to A.R. Dalrymple from Oliver Dalrymple; interviews with Erasmus G. Hagen, John Hanson, Joseph Hanson, Ralph L. Miller, David and Nellie Minnis, and John H. Pannebaker; index to articles concerning bonanza farms and the Dalrymples; financial statements (1907, 1910, 1918); inventories (1908-1909, 1911-1917, 1919), and cultivation statements, crop disposition, and crop income and distribution statements (1908-1919); and clippings relating to Oliver and...
Dates:
1880-ca. 1950
Dewell E. Viker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 108
Abstract
Correspondence, interview, legal material, map, and newspaper clippings, relating to Viker's purchase of Grandin Farm Trust (formerly Grandin Farm No. 1), bonanza farm headquartered in Mayville, Traill County, N.D., in 1946.
Dates:
1946-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Dewell E. Viker Papers
George Hilstad Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 269-Tape 11
Abstract
Correspondence, typewritten summaries of interviews, taped interviews with Hilstad and Roy Bunn, relating to the Blanchard, Belle Prairie, and Grandin bonanza farms in Traill and Cass counties, N.D.; abstract of platting of Traill Centre; statistical information concerning Mayville, N.D., churches; articles, several written by Hilstad's wife, Mary (Dunlevy) Hilstad, chiefly concerning Traill County history; letters written by Torsten Torstenson Kopseng to Norwegian relatives, describing his...
Dates:
1863-1970
Grandin Farms Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 2890
Abstract
Materials relating to Grandin Farms, bonanza wheat farm in Cass and Traill counties, N.D., founded 1876 by Grandin brothers, John L. and W.J. Grandin (originally of Tidoute, Pa.), stockholders of Northern Pacific Railroad, who came to North Dakota to claim railroad land.
Dates:
1879-1960.