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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Carpio, First NB, 7315
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG EF 40 EPQ    

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This bank survived the banking holiday and issued approximately 754 sheets of small size notes. The census shows 12 small notes reported with officers of Soren J. Rasmussen, President and E.F. McGovern, Cashier. This note is graded EF 40 EPQ but that must have been a mechanical error. Carpio is a city in Ward County, in the Minot metro area. The population was 157 at the 2010 census. This Soo Line Railroad station was founded in 1896. The post office was established July 7, 1898 with Austen E. Kjontvedt as Postmaster. The village, which incorporated in 1906, reached a peak population of 344 in 1930. Many theories exist concerning the origin of the name, the most well known being the folklore version about the first post office being housed in a box car, quite literally a "Car P.O. Some say Mrs. Pennington, the wife of a Soo Line official, named it for a Spanish novel of this name, which means tents. Others say it was named for Carpio de Vega, the Spanish poet and playwright who penned thousands of plays during his lifetime and earned a literary status second only to Cervantes in the history of Spain. Still others say it was named for Bernardo del Carpio, the legendary Spanish hero who supposedly killed the famous French paladin Roland, a feat that ranks him just below El Cid in the annals of blood and war in Spain. No matter the origin, there are no other towns named Carpio in the United States.

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