Valley City, ND List

784 - Medicine Wheel - Native American Perspective
The land itself is understood as a teacher, where the Medicine Wheel rises from the ground not just as a...

762 - Former Mayor - Curtis Olson
Curtis George Norval Olson was born on March 26, 1908 into a small rural community that would shape...

763 - Community Effort
During World War II, the community of Valley City, North Dakota, demonstrated a strong support...

764 - Peggy Lee
Before she became Peggy Lee, the woman with the sultry, unmistakable voice heard around the world...

765 - 164th Effort
Neil Emery, a lifelong North Dakota resident, served in the G Company, 164th Infantry of the North Dakota...

766 - Life as a POW - Brownell Cole
Brownell Cole served with the 31st Infantry during World War II. Stationed in the Philippines when...

767 - V-12
In 2003, on the campus of Valley City State University, former members of the Navy’s V-12 program...

768 - Norway Ties
Paul Fjelde’s connection to Valley City began early. After his father Jacob, a Norwegian immigrant...

769 - Cadet Nurses
During World War II, the United States faced a critical shortage of trained nurses as many medical...

770 - Sisters of Mary of the Presentation POW's
During World War II, seven young Sisters of Mary of the Presentation, a teaching order that had taken...

771 - Herman Stern
In the early years of Nazi rule in Germany, one North Dakota businessman quietly helped save lives...

772 - Nuremberg Trial
Harriet Zetterberg’s path to international service began in Valley City, North Dakota. A graduate of Valley City...

773 - War Story - Runyon Peterson
Runyon Peterson was a young American when the United States entered World War II. After graduating...

774 - Carnegie Library
My name is Harriet Anfinson, former librarian of the Valley City Carnegie Library, and I would like to...

775 - Pioneer Park Amphitheater
On a grassy hillside in Valley City, large stone letters still spell out a single word: PIONEERS...

776 - Chautauqua Park History
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, communities across America gathered for...

777 - Naming Valley City and Flood Story
Before surveyors arrived or names were discussed, the land here was already telling its own story...

778 - City Park and Zoo History
Second Crossing of the Sheyenne, which would later become Valley City, was founded in 1872, and by...

779 - Story of the City Park Bandshell
On summer evenings in Valley City, music has a way of drifting through City Park, carried from the...

780 - VCSU Footbridge
For more than a century, the Valley City State University footbridge has been a steady presence, linking...

781 - The Development of Medicine Wheel Park
Dr. Joe Stickler, longtime Valley City State University professor, inspired students and the community...

782 - Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel is a way of understanding time through nature. Across the world, ancient cultures...

783 - Medicine Wheel Native American Burial Mounds
Medicine Wheel Park is more than just its iconic wheel; it is also home to ancient Native American...
