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A 2013 census report listed North Dakota's population at an all-time high of 723,393 residents, making North Dakota the fastest growing state in the nation. The population boom reverses nearly a century of flat population numbers.
The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army expedition in 1874 led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer that set out on July 2, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, which is south of modern day Mandan, North Dakota, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.
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1889 – Town becomes part of the new U.S. state of North Dakota. 1890 – North Dakota Agricultural College opens. [7] 1891 North Dakota Agricultural College College Hall (Old Main) is built. Concordia College founded in nearby Moorhead, Minnesota. 1893 June 7: Fire. [5] Mechanical Arts Building built on North Dakota Agricultural College campus.
Clark's group reaches the Missouri and enters present-day North Dakota. [136] August 11: Lewis is accidentally shot in the buttocks by one of his men. [137] August 12: The Corps reunites on the Missouri in western North Dakota near the mouth of Knife River. [138] August 14: The expedition returns to a warm welcome by the Hidatsa and Mandan ...
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
North Dakota (/ d ə ˈ k oʊ t ə / ⓘ də-KOH-tə) [4] is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west.
The first Mandan village was north of the river. The elder Vérendrye gave its latitude as 48°12' which is about 10 miles (16 km) north of any point on the Missouri River. If the reading was not too inaccurate it implies a northern location, possibly a site near modern New Town, North Dakota, as first suggested by Libby in 1916. Vérendrye ...