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NDDOT History 1861 - 1880

1860-1870

Fort Yates

 

 

 

Military posts are built in the Dakotas

 

 

 

1870’s

Anson Northrup Steamboat

 

 

 

Four-horse stage lines become common in the Dakotas

 

 

1872

Anson Northrup Steamboat

 

 

Northern Pacific Railroad arrives in Fargo

 

 

1873

ferry below NP Bridge, Missouri River,Bis

 

 

Northern Pacific Railroad arrives in Bismarck