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Verendrye National Monument was a federally protected area in the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1917 to 1956. In the latter year it was withdrawn as a national monument . It is located in southwestern Mountrail County , west of the city of New Town .
The Verendrye Site is an historical archaeological site off Verendrye Drive in Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota, United States.Now a small public park, it is the place where the La Vérendrye brothers, the first known Europeans to explore this area, placed a lead plate bearing the crest of France, to claim the territory for their homeland, during their 1742-43 expedition to the Rocky ...
Saguaro National Monument March 1, 1933 October 4, 1994 Redesignated as Saguaro National Park: Verendrye National Monument: June 29, 1917 July 30, 1956 Transferred to North Dakota after the construction of the Garrison Dam; site currently flooded by the reservoir Lake Sakakawea: Gates of the Arctic National Monument December 1, 1978 December 2 ...
Smith's view contributed to the closing of the former Verendrye National Monument. The lead plate was found at Pierre, South Dakota, in 1913 and is now in the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre. It is six by eight inches (15 by 20 cm) and similar to ones placed in the Ohio Valley.
The Menoken Indian Village Site, also known as Menoken Site, Verendrye Site or Apple Creek Site is an archeological site near Bismarck, North Dakota.The site, that of a fortified village occupied c. 1300, is important in the region's prehistory, as it is one of the only sites that predates sites that are more clearly associated with the historic Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara cultures.
Cinder Cone National Monument; Congaree Swamp National Monument; D. Death Valley National Monument; ... Verendrye National Monument; W. Wheeler Geologic Area;
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The post office was established with the name Falsen in 1913, but the name was changed in 1925 to honor Pierre de la Verendrye, an early French-Canadian explorer who was said to be the first non-Native American person to tour the North Dakota prairies. [4] [5] The population of Falsen in 1920 was 75. [2] The population of Verendrye in 1938 was ...