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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Beach, First NB, W9484
Fr. 600 $5 1902PB
Grade: PMG VF 25 Net    

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Beach is a one-bank town in Golden Valley County. The bank was organized on May 26, 1909 and went into receivership January 24, 1924, nearly 15 years later. They issued 6,735 sheets of National Bank Notes, both 1902 Date Backs and Plain Backs. Currently there are five surviving examples, with this note making that count six. This note is likely the finest known and has excellent bold blue signatures of Ole Christopher Attletweed, President and O.A. Heller, Cashier. PMG notes: minor rust and ink. Beach is the county seat of Golden Valley County in western North Dakota along the border with Montana. The population was 1,019 at the 2010 census. The Northern Pacific Railroad built a section house here in 1881 and named it for Capt. Warren C. Beach of the 11th Infantry, United States Army, who had escorted the first railroad surveyors through the area in 1880. Settlement began in 1900; the post office was established in 1902. The town was incorporated first as a village in 1908 and as a city in 1909. It was named the county seat of Golden Valley County in 1912. A peak population of 1,460 was reached in 1960.

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