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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Dickinson, Liberty NB, 12401
Fr. 661 $20 1902PB
Grade: PMG VF 20 Net    

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This bank was organized on June 12, 1923 and there are just two large notes reported from the scant 713 sheets printed; the other is a serial #1. This was the next to last chartered bank in the state that issued large size National Bank Notes. This note is evenly circulated with excellent purple stamped signatures of Anthony Kostelecky, President and Ant. W. Sadowsky, Cashier. Previously acquired from David Koble. PMG notes: minor rust. Dickinson is the county seat of Stark County in the Heart River valley. The population was 17,787 at the 2010 census. This site was named Pleasant Valley Siding in 1880, but was renamed in 1881 for Wells Stoughton Dickinson (1828-1892), a land agent and politician from Malone, New York, who had visited here 1880. (His brother, Horace L. Dickinson, lived onsite to oversee its development.) The post office was established October 6, 1881 with F. H. Longley as Postmaster. It became the county seat in 1883, incorporated as a village in 1899, and became a city in 1900. Dickinson is centrally located in southwestern North Dakota, the midpoint between Fargo, North Dakota and Billings, Montana. Due to this strategic location, and the resulting regional social and economic influence, it was known for decades by the nickname Queen City of the Prairies. Reference to this nickname was used as early as 1906.

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