St. Vincent Memories

One of the architects of settlement for our area - along with others like Lord Selkirk - James J. Hill was instrumental in how towns rose ...

PHOTO INFO:  A stereoview showing the railroad track along the eastern bank of the Red River in St. Vincent.   This track is the continuat...

Electus Backus Litchield "Flagrantly & monumentally impudent" H ow did the St. Vincent Extension (which was the rail line...

Pembina Pioneer Express masthead [Courtesy:  Pembina County Historical Society] J im Benjaminson recently shared some excerpts from old...

Despite the seeming title discrepancy,  this is  the same, correct gazetteer... ST. VINCENT [From Minnesota, North and South Dakota a...

St. Vincent 1900 Census - William Ash , Enumerator [Click to enlarge] Census Population Counts: 1880 - 489 1890 - 507 1900 - 2...

From   Daily globe (St. Paul, Minn.) April 16, 1882   Source: Library of Congress'   Chronicling America C oolican took his stand be...

Newspaper ad from Emerson International (1878)

Competition for political and economic power between the emerging territorial cities was common in the early days, even between Pembina and...

Old Kittson County Courthouse - I must say, it has a lot more  style than the current courthouse building...too bad it couldn't have...

I reported on this about a year ago, and now we're finally seeing progress. Groundbreaking has begun on the major construction pro...

I recently posted about a very real city that is now long gone called Huron City .  That post drew responses that revealed to me that there ...

Amen to the message of this video. This is what has been happening to my hometown and all such hometowns for many years now. As the video s...

It's coming, and it has serious regional economic implications even to smaller communities like Pembina/Emerson/ St. Vincent ... Centre...