Belle Prairie Farm (Traill County, N.D.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Hegbert Anderson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 270
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning working on the Jones Farm and the Belle Prairie Farm in Traill County.
Dates:
1954
Ole O. Melhus Family History
Collection
Identifier: SC 877
Abstract
Ole O. Melhus emigrated fron Sogn, Norway to Kenyon, Minn. Wed Christine Hjellum, also of Sogn, Norway in 1884. They settled in Traill County, N.D.
Dates:
1957.
William A. McCain Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 567
Abstract
Farmer at Blanchard, N.D., who named his farm Aurora Borealis, referred to as Aurora Farm. Later, appointed postmaster at Hillsboro, N.D.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950-1959