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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Walhalla, First NB, 9133 #6
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 30    

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This is the bottom note from the #1-6 sheet. The bank printed 504 sheets of Type 1 small size. This note, one of fifteen reported, is in excellent condition. Signing officers were George W. Delisle, President and Arthur L. White, Cashier. George W. Delisle was born in North Hadley, Mass., May 12, 1867 and came to Dakota with his parents in 1877. In 1886 he went to Grafton, where he established branch stores in connection with the Joseph Deschenes. In 1897, he moved to Walhalla, where he established The Cash Store, a general merchandise establishment. He also owned a chain of similar stores in Saskatchewan, Canada in addition to his work with the First National Bank. Walhalla is located in Pembina County on the banks of the Pembina River, five miles from the border with Canada. The population was 996 at the 2010 census, with a peak population of 1,471 reached in 1970. Walhalla was established in 1845, making it the second oldest town in North Dakota, its history bound up in the fur trade of the Red River Valley. One mile northeast of town is the North West Company fur trading post, established in 1797 by David Thompson, which in 1801 moved to a site one mile east of Walhalla, where a reconstructed building is now located. The oldest building in North Dakota is located in Walhalla. The Kittson Trading Post was established by Norman Kittson, an American Fur Company agent, in 1843 and is located in the Walhalla State Historical Park. Another trading post, located northeast of Walhalla, was established by Antoine Gingras as early as 1844. Gingras worked with Kittson in establishing Walhalla as a major trading area at that early period of North Dakota's history. Father Belcourt is credited with establishing the City of Walhalla in 1845. Father Belcourt moved his church school from Pembina to Walhalla due to severe flooding in Pembina; he named the site St. Joseph. St. Joseph served as a temporary county seat of Kittson County, Walsh, Pembina and parts of Cavalier County, when the first division of counties was made by in 1862. The name was changed to Walhalla on July 21, 1871 when George W. Reed was Postmaster. The name is an Anglicized version of Valhalla, the home of the gods in Norse mythology. Development of Walhalla continued with the arrival of farmers and railroad in the 1880s. The Great Northern Railroad extended its branch line from Grafton to this point in 1898.

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