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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Bathgate, NB, 11112
Fr. 1801-1 $10 1929T1
Grade: PMG VF 20    

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This charter issued 227 sheets of 1929 Type 1 $10s before it was liquidated in early 1930. K.O. Paulson has become president by this time and G. L. Gross was the cashier. This note, previously from the John Moran collection, is one of four surviving small size notes. Bathgate is located in Pembina County on the banks of the Tongue River, about 15 miles south of the Canadian border. The population was 43 at the 2010 census. It was founded in 1879 as Bayview, but was re-named when the Post Office was established in 1881 with William Foster as Postmaster. It was platted that year by the Comstock and White Co, and Mr. Comstock named it for Bathgate, Scotland, the hometown of his wife. The city, which incorporated in 1907, reached a peak population of 825 in 1890. The North Dakota School for the Blind was founded here in 1908 with B.P. Chapple as Superintendent, but it was relocated to Grand Forks in 1960. Bathgate was the childhood home of former world-champion speed skater and figure skater, Norval Baptie.

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