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Trails to the Past
Trails to
the Past of North Dakota is excepting any donations of
genealogy materials that you may have such as marriage
announcements, news articles, old obituaries, births, (you do
not need the birth certificate) just the information, and
biographies. If you have any of these items please
contact me Marie Miller the
North Dakota State Administrator.
Stutsman County was created by the 1872-1873
territorial legislature and named for Enos Stutsman, a
powerful politician in the early days of the Dakota Territory.
The county government was first organized on June 20,
1873. Jamestown is the county seat. In 1872, the
U.S. Army established Fort Seward, a small post garrisoned by
three companies (about 120 men) of the Twentieth Infantry
Regiment, on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the James
River and Pipestem Creek. The fort guarded the crossing of the
James by the Northern Pacific Railroad. The fort only lasted
five years, being decommissioned in 1877 - but the railroad
remained, establishing a repair yard that was among the city's
main industries until the 1960s. Jamestown was founded in 1872
and incorporated in 1883, it was also known as Buffalo
City. Below is a photo of the James River in
Jamestown.
The cities of Stutsman County are Buchanan, Cleveland,
Courtenay, Jamestown, Kensal, Medina, Montpelier, Pingree,
Spiritwood Lake, Streeter, and Woodworth. Unincorporated
communities are those of Spiritwood, and Fort Seward.
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Townships of Stutsman County
Alexander
Ashland
Bloom
Bloomenfield
Buchanan
Chicago
Conklin
Corinne
Corwin
Courtenay
Cusator
Deer
Lake
Durham
Edmunds
Eldridge
Flint
Fried
Gerber
Germania
Glacier
Gray |
Griffin
Hidden
Homer
Iosco
Jim River
Valley
Kensal
Lenton
Lippert
Lowery
Lyon
Manns
Marstonmoor
Midway
Montpelier
Moon
Lake
Newbury
Nogosek
Paris
Peterson
Pingree
Pipestem
Valley |
Plainview
Rose
Round
Top
St.
Paul
Severn
Sharlow
Sinclair
Spiritwood
Stirton
Streeter
Strong
Sydney
Valley
Spring
Wadsworth
Walters
Weld
Windsor
Winfield
Woodbury
Ypsilanti | |
On Line Data
History of
Kensal
Census
Biographies |
Adjacent Counties
Foster
County (north)
Griggs
County (northeast)
Barnes
County (east)
LaMoure
County (southeast)
Logan
County (southwest)
Kidder
County (west)
Wells
County (northwest)
Trails to the Past
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Stutsman County Message Boards at
Rootsweb
Stutsman County Message Boards at
Genforum
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