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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Marmarth, First NB, 9082
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG Ch. VF 35    

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Here is a lovely new addition to the small size census of this Slope County bank, making the current total reported 13 notes. Excellent quality and printed signatures of C.P. Allison, President and J.R. Madsen, Cashier. Marmarth is located in Slope County along the Little Missouri River; the population was 136 at the 2010 census. The community was named after Margaret Martha Fitch, daughter of a railroad president. With the arrival of the railroad in the fall of 1907, the town of Marmarth was established. It incorporated as a village in 1909, and became a city in 1915, the same year it lost the county seat election to Amidon. It reached a peak population of 1,318 in 1920, but declined rapidly after 1922 when the railroad shop was closed following a bitter labor strike. The first high school graduation class was in 1912. This class of two included Colin Clements, who went on to become a well-known author and Hollywood playwright. The first electric light plant was built for the city and was in full operation by the fall of 1915. By 1917 it was the only town in North Dakota to have natural gas piped in for both commercial and domestic use. 1918 saw the completion of a water and sewer system. The Marmarth area is rich in dinosaur fossils, especially Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, hadrosaurs, and many other species. Dakota, a fossilized Edmontosaurus, a type of duckbill dinosaur, was discovered near Marmarth in 1999 by Tyler Lyson. The fossil is unique in that soft tissue, skin, and muscle were fossilized as well as bone. A life-size welded steel T-Rex, built as promotion to the first Dinosaur Days in 2001, can still be seen along the highway east of town.

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