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National Bank Notes > North Dakota

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Williston, First NB, 5567
Fr. 1802-1 $20 1929T1
Grade: PMG Ch. AU 58    

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This bank issued 920 sheets of small size notes before liquidating on August 19, 1933. This note is one of four small notes reported, with one other of a similar grade. None of the reported notes have been publicly offered. This nice looking note does have a center fold. Officers signing the note were A. Stern, President and F.E. Stewart, Cashier. Williston is the county seat of Williams County with a population of 14,716 at the 2010 census. This Great Northern Railroad station was founded in 1887 as 'Sidetrack #25' and was named for Daniel Willis James, a board member of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The Little Muddy post office moved here July 12, 1887 with Winfield Scott Dunn as Postmaster. It incorporated as a village in 1894, became a city in 1904. Williston's economy, while historically agricultural, is increasingly being driven by the oil industry. Williston sits atop the Bakken formation, which by the end of 2012 is predicted to be producing more oil than any other site in the United States. The importance of grains in the local economy has not been forgotten and is reinforced by a sculptural group in Davidson Park called the Wheat Monument, a trio of metal wheat stalks that soar thirty-five feet into the air.

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