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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Washburn, First NB, 6327
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 25    

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A rare small size note from a bank with only five small notes reported from the 282 sheets that were printed before the bank went into receivership on September 29, 1930. Printed signatures of officers A. Nelson, President and J.A. O'Brien, Cashier. Washburn is the county seat of McLean County; the population was 1,246 at the 2010 census. The community, located on the Missouri River, was officially founded in 1882 and named for Cadwallader Colden Washburn, a Civil War General, Congressman, and Governor of Wisconsin. In 1804 and 1806, an expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark entered North Dakota and wintered near the present town of Washburn on its way to the Pacific Coast. This temporary post, Fort Mandan, was frequently visited by nearby Indians. It was here that Lewis and Clark met Sakakawea (Sacagawea), the Indian woman who would be essential to the success of the Expedition. The post office was established September 4, 1882 with George G. Rhude as Postmaster, who had operated the old Turtle Valley post office just southeast of Washburn. Washburn was designated McLean County seat when the county organized in 1883, and it incorporated as a city in 1902, the year the Soo Line Railroad arrived. Until 1898, Washburn was one of the last stops for riverboats traveling from St. Louis, Missouri.

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