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National Bank Notes > Minnesota

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Starbuck, First NB, M9596
Fr. 593 $5 1902DB
Grade: Ch. CU    

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STARBUCK is a city in Pope County, platted in the spring of 1882 and incorporated as a village on June 6, 1883. There are many versions of the city's naming: for the oxen Star and Buck, owned by Andrew Hagenson, who hauled the materials for an early bridge; for Sidney Starbuck, a director of the Little Falls and Dakota Railroad; for W. H. Starbuck, a New York capitalist with interests in the railroad; for an early settler whose last name was Sagbaken; or after an area in Baerum, Norway called Stabekk. The post office began in 1869 as White Bear Centre, with Nels B. Wollan as postmaster in his general store three miles north of the present townsite; he moved the store to Starbuck in 1882 when the name changed, continuing as postmaster. Starbuck is the home of the world's largest lefse, a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread.

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