History · Foxholm

Foxholm’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Foxholm. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

4old images & papers
4need a date
From Foxholm’s archive · credits on each photo

The story

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A post office called Foxholm was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1967. The community supposedly was named after a place in England. The population was 250 in 1940.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Foxholm’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewUpper Souris National Wildlife Re…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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Foxholm, decade by decade

National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Foxholm is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Foxholm has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Andrew Carr Sr. House in Minot, 15.1 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Andrew Carr Sr. House’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Foxholm?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Foxholm’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge Dams, Souris River Basin and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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