---

National Bank Notes > North Dakota

---

---

New England, First NB, 9776
Fr. 601 $5 1902PB
Grade: PMG Fine 12 Net    

---

This is a previously unrecorded $5 Plain Back that brings the total large known to five pieces. The note is evenly circulated but 'net' graded for six pinheads of rust. Excellent pen signatures of Henry Melaas, Vice President and H.E. Schroeder, Cashier. PMG notes: rust. New England is located in Hettinger County in the southwestern corner of North Dakota. The population was 600 at the 2010 census. New England was founded in 1887, predating all other settlements in Hettinger County by many years. Many early settlers were from the New England states of Vermont and Massachusetts; they originally named the settlement Mayflower. The name changed to New England City within the first year and when the post office opened in 1894 the new Postmaster Horace W. Smith shortened the name to simply New England. The Milwaukee Road Railroad reached here in 1910, making the village the terminus of the Milwaukee Road branch line that split from the railroad's Pacific Extension in McLaughlin, South Dakota. The silhouette of the two Rainy Buttes near New England is a distinguishing symbol of the town.

---