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History · Landa

Landa’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Landa. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story

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The extension westward of the railroad in 1903 led to the establishment of Landa along the Great Northern Railway. Originally named Strabane, Norwegian immigrants renamed it after Daniel D. Landa and Theodore T. Landa, early settlers in the area.

Landa once had a bank, a hardware store, a lumber yard, a hotel, and other business establishments. Landa incorporated as a city in 1922, and showed a population of 140 during the 1930 Census.

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Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Landa is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Landa has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Swedish Zion Lutheran Church in Haram, 14.6 miles away.

Landa and the nearest listed places

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Swedish Zion Lutheran ChurchOle Crogen Farm DistrictState Bank of AntlerLower Souris National Wildlife Refuge Airplane HangarMain, North Dakota School of Forestry, Old

Closest to Landa

Swedish Zion Lutheran ChurchHaram · Building14.6miOle Crogen Farm DistrictPickering · District17.4miState Bank of AntlerAntler · Building17.5miLower Souris National Wildlife Refuge Airplane HangarMeadow · Structure21.4miMain, North Dakota School of Forestry, OldBottineau · Building21.8mi

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. Swedish Zion Lutheran Church’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Landa?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Landa’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

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

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