#1 $10 1902DB First NB, Plaza

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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Plaza, First NB, W9689
Fr. 619 $10 1902DB
Grade: PMG Ch. VF 35 Net    

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Here is an amazing find from this Mountrail County bank that was organized on February 11, 1910 and placed into receivership on August 8, 1931. They issued 3,852 large size sheets before switching to small size and printing 350 sheets of those. There are only two large notes reported and this one is new to the census. There are 13 #1 $10s known from North Dakota but this is the only 1902 Date Back and it's a beauty, although it is graded 'net' for a single rust pinhole. Lovely penned signatures of Robert W. Akin, President and L.E. Linden, Cashier. This note came from Dale Brick, an early collector of North and South Dakota. PMG notes: minor rust. Plaza, in Mountrail County, was officially founded July 20, 1906 as the terminus of a Soo Line branch line from Max. The population was 171 at the 2010 census with a peak population of 408 reached in 1930. Plaza and was named to note the central plaza within the business district. The post office was established September 8, 1906 with Vern L. Shaw as Postmaster. The village incorporated in 1910, and it became a city in 1951 with Roy Sandstrom mayor. The Soo Line Railroad extended its line to Sanish in 1914, starting at Prairie Junction southeast of town, creating the appearance that Plaza was located on a spur of the railroad. One of the town's well-known residents is Walter J. Maddock, who served as Governor of North Dakota from 1928 to 1929.

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