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Cando (/ ˈ k æ n d uː / KAN-doo) is a city in Towner County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Towner County. [ 5 ] The population was 1,117 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Cando – You Can Do Better in Cando [3] Dickinson – Queen City or Queen City of the Prairies [4] Drayton – Catfish Capital of the North [5] Hebron – The Brick City [6] Jamestown – The Buffalo City [7] Minot – The Magic City [8] Ray – Grain Palace City [9] Rugby – Geographical Center of North America [10] St. John – City at the ...
The Towner County Courthouse in Cando, North Dakota is a historic Queen Anne-style building that was built in 1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] It is a four-story wheat-colored brick building upon a cut stone foundation.
The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 8, 1883, with areas partitioned from Cavalier and Rolette counties. It was named for Oscar M. Towner (1842–1897), a businessman and member of the 15th territorial legislature.
Northern Plains is the largest cooperative in ND land-wise and was created in 1997 from the merger of Baker Electric Cooperative (based in Cando, and which was the first REA-financed electric cooperative in the state) and Tri-County Electric Cooperative (which was established at Glenfield before relocating to Carrington).
He engaged in the real estate business and banking in Cando and also in agricultural pursuits; was a school director and member of the Cando Board of Aldermen. He was mayor of Cando, and was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Martin N. Johnson and served from November 10, 1909, to January 31 ...
The town was named after Colonel Andrew Bisbee, a native of Peru, Maine.Bisbee, a veteran of the Civil War who came to Towner County in 1885. In 1890 he was chosen by the county commissioners of Towner County to solicit drought relief and was elected to a term in the North Dakota Senate.
This list of museums in North Dakota, United States, is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.