St. Vincent Memories

Jim Benjaminson shared today:   Well, its getting closer to reality - "Sagas of Pembina County, 1867-2017" is at the printer...

Where Have All The Car Dealers Gone? by Jim Benjaminson Gregory Ford's announcement last week that they are giving up their Ford...

Jim Benjaminson is a local historian from Pembina County, North Dakota.  This year is the sesquicentennial of Pembina County, and in cel...

Huron City (1883 Plat Map) Source:  HistoricMapWorks.com I 've written about Huron City a few times here before; and of course C...

Click HERE to see this recent video about Norval Baptie... I have written about Norval Baptie before , but at the time it was short an...

'Birdman' Beachey,  putting on flying show at the Hamilton Fair [Reprinted with permission] W hen Orville and Wilbur Wright ...

T he steam engine has not yet been restored in this photograph and the seat is visible. [An unrelated piece of machinery is in the backgro...

June 6/7, 2013 Fire:  All that is left of a once stately home... [Photo Credit:  Jamie Rustad Meagher] A ll that is left now is a pil...

I don't know details on how farmers around my hometown area (Kittson County and Pembina County) contributed to the efforts described as...

The image above is from an envelope I have in my possession. It is in the upper left-hand corner representing the return address of Charles...

Marion Johnson Strong Spink, Sister of Louis Philip Strong, born Scipio, New York, May 26, 1874, married Benjamin E. Spink [ Neche, ND - Ci...

A native of Maine, born December 23, 1843, of American parentage, the career of Frank A. Wardwell of Pembina , has been an eventful one, and...

Judson LaMoure was the Nestor of the public men of Dakota - [140] years ago he was a public official, serving as sub-agent to the Brule Sio...

Pembina County Fair - Hamilton, ND Photo by:  Bruce Wendt When I was growing up in St. Vincent , we attended the Kittson County Fair...