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NDDOT History 1801 - 1820

1801

Alexander Henry establishes a North West trading post in Pembina – overland carts begin making t rips to and from Pembina for trade.
 

1804-1805

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark winter in North Dakota on their way to the Pacific.