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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Hope, NB, W8395
Fr. 652 $20 1902PB
Grade: PMG Ch. Fine 15    

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This bank was organized on July 31, 1906 and they issued 9,170 sheets of notes before going into liquidation on April 1, 1927. This note is one of nine large notes reported on this Steele County bank. It has purple stamped signatures of C.S. Moores, President and C.W. Moores, Cashier. This note came through John Moran. Hope is located in Steele County; the population was 258 at the 2010 census and a peak population of 909 was reported in 1910. The community was named for Hope A. Hubbard Steele, wife of E.H. Steele, for whom the county was named. One of the early homesteaders was L. B. Hanna in July 1881. He would reside here only a short time, moving to Page in 1882 and then to Fargo in 1889. He served as Governor of North Dakota from 1913-1916. The original town, consisting of fifty blocks, was laid out in June 1883 by A. S. Anthony, a civil engineer from Minneapolis. The Hope Pioneer was the first publication in what is now Steele County. The first issue was published on April 7,1882, with N. H. Emmons, editor. The post office had been established March 29, 1881 with Herbert Smart as Postmaster, one mile northeast of the townsite, to which it moved in 1882. It incorporated as a village in 1890, and became a city in 1904 with George A. Warner (1857-1948) as mayor. It was the first county seat of Griggs County in 1882, and after some boundary changes it became the first county seat of Steele County in 1883. Because it was not centrally located, however, it lost the courthouse to Sherbrooke in 1885.

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