Amidon’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Amidon. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Amidon was founded in 1910 at the anticipated terminus of a Milwaukee Road branch line that diverged from the railroad's Pacific Extension in McLaughlin, South Dakota. The line was ultimately never built farther west of New England, North Dakota, making Amidon one of the few surviving North Dakota cities never to have been served by a rail line. The original county courthouse was built in 1915. It was also the last county seat in the state to get electricity when Slope Electric Cooperative extended their distribution lines into Amidon in 1950.
Amidon is named after Charles F. Amidon, a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Amidon’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Amidon’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewDistance from, 1978: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Amidon, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Amidon is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Amidon has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is H-T Ranch in Sand Creek, 10.1 miles away.
Amidon and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Distance from (1978) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.