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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Hannaford, First NB, W7727
Fr. 650 $20 1902PB
Grade: PMG Ch. VF 35    

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A one-bank town in Griggs County with the bank being organized on April 1, 1905. They issued 4,867 sheets of large size notes before being placed into receivership on December 10, 1926. This note appeared publicly in 2009 when it realized just over $4,000. Fresh and crisp with excellent pen signatures of O.E. Thoreson, President and R.L. Jones, Cashier. Hannaford is located in east-central North Dakota along the Bald Hill Creek in Griggs County. The population was 131 at the 2010 census. The area was surveyed in 1879 and most of the land around Hannaford was homesteaded by 1883. A branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad was completed through Hannaford the summer of 1883 and the community was named for Jules M. Hannaford, a railroad official. A loading platform for grain was built in Hannaford in 1883 and by early 1884, the first building, a small shack for storing grain, was built west of the track. In 1886 Reuben C. Brophy started a store and built the first house, moving his family from Cooperstown in 1887. The townsite was platted by Andrew Langdon by the end of 1886. The post office was established that year with Brophy appointed Postmaster. In 1912 the Great Northern Railroad built its Surrey cutoff line through Hannaford, giving the village two-railroad status. The village, which incorporated in 1906, reached a peak population of 431 in 1920. The Hannaford Enterprise newspaper was established in 1904 and the Fire Department was founded in 1910. Hannaford is known for erecting the first ski jump in the state in 1920.

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