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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Crosby, First NB, 10596
Fr. 605 $5 1902PB
Grade: PMG EF 40    

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Crosby is in Divide County and their bank was organized on April 29, 1914. The bank printed 3,287 sheets, all $5 Red Seals. The penned signatures of H.H. Martin, President and L.F. Henderson, Assistant Cashier are bold and proudly signed. The note has excellent paper quality and color as well as being new to the census, which now stands at six large notes reported. Crosby is the county seat of Divide County, the northwestern-most county in North Dakota; the population was 1,070 at the 2010 census. Crosby was founded in 1904 at the end of a Great Northern Railway branch line that began in Berthold. The name comes from S.A. Crosby, a businessman from Portal involved in establishing the city. The post office was established June 25, 1904 with Samuel S. Nelson as Postmaster. In 1908 it was relocated one mile east, to the crossroads of the Great Northern Railroad and the Soo Line Railroad, effectively absorbing the old townsite of Imperial. When Divide County was organized in 1910, Crosby was named the county seat. It incorporated as a city in 1911 with J. C. Rousseau as mayor.

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