St. Vincent Memories

[Note — General Manager McDougal of the Pershing Way [Association] , who was for a short time Publicity Commissioner of the Jefferson High...

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

Dr. Campbell was a versatile man, with credentials as a Dentist as  well as a Physician, from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnat...

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

From the 1893 Plat Atlas - Click to Enlarge [Map Credit:  Library of Congress] I n the section of Pembina shown above - part of the 18...

A s I have earlier hypothesized  when discussing St. Vincent's earlier incorporation (the first of two), it appears I was right -  it wa...

A "Rye Communion" was held in Christ Church during Prohibition! I stumbled across a mention of St. Vincent in a Google Books s...

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

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

From a traveler's observation of an immigrant train arriving in St. Vincent comes this account... It was a dull rainy evening when we...

Source:  State Historical Society of North Dakota [Click to enlarge...] THE OLD-TIME POST OFFICE AT PEMBINA By Charles Cavileer Cav...

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

1857 Minnesota Territorial Census of St. Vincent... [Click to see larger image] The above image is of the actual 1857 census of my home...

Red line shows route of Old Highway 81 Highway 81 as it was prior to the Interstate age, was the main highway through the Pembina area, t...

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...

We all have seen the decline and depopulation of our hometowns in rural areas, but then you see an inspirational story like this and are re...

"Thus it appears that Emerson, Manitoba , will become the natural gas centre of the universe – or at least a significant trading hub – ...

View of the two company forts (fur trading companies, Hudson Bay on the left and the Northwest Company on the right) on the level pra...

From The Diplomacy of Trade & Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865-1900 by David M. Pletcher