This History-Filled Park In North Dakota Makes For An Excellent Outing
By Leah|Published February 13, 2019
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Leah moved to North Dakota when she was 12 years old and has traveled from the Red River Valley to the badlands and many places in between. She loves small-town life and currently enjoys living on a small farm in the ND prairie. She's always had a passion for writing and has participated in novel writing challenges such as NaNoWriMo multiple times. Her favorite part about this job is recognizing small businesses that deserve a boost and seeing the positive affect her articles can have on their traffic, especially in rural areas that might have otherwise gone overlooked.
North Dakota’s history and heritage is all brought together in this one unique park. It has many historic buildings, including some you won’t find anywhere else in the state. This is the perfect place for a family outing to learn from and enjoy, and here’s all you need to know about it:
Prairie Outpost Park in Dickinson, North Dakota is a lovely place for an excellent outing for people of all ages. It is part of the Dickinson Museum Center so there is a lot to see here.
The park is full of historic buildings, some relocated and some reconstructed, that'll bring you back in time to the earlier days on the prairie. One of the most interesting is this stone pioneer house that looks interesting both outside and in, with accurate antiques inside to fit the time period.
What makes this place really unique is also its focus of not only North Dakota history but also North Dakota heritage. The park has a Scandinavian Stabbur to help teach about and celebrate the large amount of North Dakotans descended from Scandinavian immigrants.
Quite a few small towns in North Dakota come from Czech roots, as well, and Prairie Outpost Park has that covered, too. The Ceska Radnice, or Czech Town Hall, is gorgeously unique.
The history that Prairie Outpost Park covers spans from the early pioneer days to the railroad spanning across the plains and bringing with it, people. It's a great spot to learn and simply take in all the charming and fascinating buildings.
The Prairie Outpost Park is located at the Dickinson Museum Center at 188 Museum Drive E, Dickinson, ND 58601. For more information on the park, click here.
North Dakota’s history is quite a fascinating one, and although we can’t literally go back in time and see it for ourselves, we can take a glimpse into the past through the magic of photographs. Click here to see some awesome vintage shots of ND.
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