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10/24/2013: On this date in 1882, even before it became a state, North Dakota experienced its first known lynching. Unfortunately, it was not to be the last. Perhaps even more unfortunate, is what eventually happened to the mobs of vigilantes who perpetrated these crimes.

April 18 2021 Development of the North Unit project passed another milestone 75 years ago with new generator at the Cove hydroelectric plant 100 YEARS AGO April 14, 1921 Excitement reigned supreme in and near Madras Monday morning about nine oclock when the residents learned that the storage dam owned by D.M. Clark, located about two miles south of Madras on Willow Creek had been washed out and that the water was coming down on the town. Once or twice before heavy leaks and the overflowing...