Hillsboro Centennial, 1818-1981, The First Hundred Years: Hillsboro, Traill County, North Dakota

Hillsboro Centennial, 1818-1981, The First Hundred Years: Book cover
Hillsboro Centennial, 1818-1981, The First Hundred Years

Book cover

Name/Title

Hillsboro Centennial, 1818-1981, The First Hundred Years: Hillsboro, Traill County, North Dakota

Entry/Object ID

2024.605.1

Description

From 18 to 21 June 1981, the City of Hillsboro, ND, celebrated its Centennial (1881-1981). For this celebration, a 9" by 11", 255-page, brown book titled: "The First Hundred Years" was written and compiled by contributions from the people of Hillsboro, Jean T. Kaldor, Co-ordinator (see Acknowledgements and Contributors page, below). This book was dedicated "to those men and women pioneers: the immigrant homesteaders, the frontier merchants, the itinerant preachers, the skilled artisans, the young schoolmarms, and the great entrepreneurs...to the Prairie People" (see book Dedication page, below). This 255-page book includes a number of chapters, for example, a chapter on "The Frontier Days of Hillsboro and chapters on Hillsboro churches and schools (see book Table of Contents page, below). Copies of this 255-page book are located on the "Traill County History" shelf in the Resource Room (3rd floor) of the Plummer House Museum in Hillsboro, ND.

Acquisition

Accession

2024.605

Source or Donor

TCHS (Traill County Historical Society)

Location

* Untyped Location

Resource Room

Building

Plummer House