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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Bowbells, First NB, 7116
Fr. 624 $10 1902PB
Grade: PMG Fine 12    

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This Burke County bank was chartered in January 1904 and issued notes throughout the issuing period, with only 2,646 large sheets ever printed and only two known survivors. This one-bank town does have small size notes available. This evenly circulated note has a signed signature of L.R. McFarlin, Cashier who must have weakly stamped the president's signature, which is not legible, as well. Records indicate this note was acquired well above the low estimate. Bowbells, located about 12 miles south of the Canadian border, is the county seat of Burke County. The population was 336 at the 2010 census; a peak population of 806 was recorded in 1950. The city of Bowbells was founded in 1896 along the main line of the Soo Line Railroad and incorporated in 1906. The city was named by railroad officials after the famed Bow bells at St. Mary-le-Bow in London, England The post office was established January 29, 1898 with John Lesh as Postmaster. Bowbells was named the county seat when Burke County organized in 1910, and it became a two-railroad town in 1913 with the arrival of the Great Northern Railroad.

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