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Valley City, ND List

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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...

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762 - Former Mayor - Curtis Olson

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

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763 - Community Effort

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

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764 - Peggy Lee

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

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765 - 164th Effort

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

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766 - Life as a POW - Brownell Cole

Brownell Cole served with the 31st Infantry during World War II. Stationed in the Philippines when...

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767 - V-12

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

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768 - Norway Ties

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

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769 - Cadet Nurses

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

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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...

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771 - Herman Stern

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

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772 - Nuremberg Trial

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

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773 - War Story - Runyon Peterson

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

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774 - Carnegie Library

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

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775 - Pioneer Park Amphitheater

On a grassy hillside in Valley City, large stone letters still spell out a single word: PIONEERS...

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776 - Chautauqua Park History

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, communities across America gathered for...

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777 - Naming Valley City and Flood Story

Before surveyors arrived or names were discussed, the land here was already telling its own story...

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778 - City Park and Zoo History

Second Crossing of the Sheyenne, which would later become Valley City, was founded in 1872, and by...

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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...

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780 - VCSU Footbridge

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

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781 - The Development of Medicine Wheel Park

Dr. Joe Stickler, longtime Valley City State University professor, inspired students and the community...

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782 - Medicine Wheel

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

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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...

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