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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Parshall, First NB, 11226
Fr. 1800-1 $5 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 20 Net    

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Parshall only issued $5 notes, large and small, with 562 sheets of small size printed. This note is new to the census which now stands at two small notes reported on the bank. It's evenly circulated but there is a red '1900' to the left of Lincoln's portrait. Officer signatures of August Peterson, President and C.P. Kjelstrup, Cashier. PMG notes: annotation. Parshall, in Mountrail County, lies within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation and is located 10 minutes from Lake Sakakawea on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The population was 903 at the 2010 census; it reached a peak population of 1,246 in 1970. Parshall is perhaps best known nationally as the town within, and providing the name for, the Parshall oil field, a very productive area of oil development. The Soo Line Railroad town was founded in 1914 and named for George Parshall, a Hidatsa Indian who had surveyed the townsite and was a mail stage driver in the area. The post office was established February 16, 1914 with Mrs. Gertrude M. Larin as Postmaster. The village incorporated in 1915, and it became a city in 1917 with Scott J. Hurst mayor. Parshall is home to The World Famous Paul Broste Rock Museum. This unique museum displays rock specimens from all over the world. On February 15, 1936 Parshall recorded a temperature of -60'F, a state record low, and on July 12, 1936, less than five months later, the temperature hit 112'F, a variance that is believed to be a world record.

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