10 Photos Of North Dakota's Most Charming Small Towns That'll Remind You Of The Good Old Days
By Leah|Published May 10, 2020
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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 has some of the most charming small towns you’ll find. Many of them haven’t changed much over the years, with remnants of what many would consider the “good old days.” If you’re looking to take a nostalgia trip, you don’t need to crack open old photo albums or anything, you can take a stroll through these old small towns in North Dakota. Even looking at these pictures might give you some great memories:
1. Walking through downtown Hillsboro, you'll still find family-owned businesses and old signs.
8. Many buildings on small town's main streets have been around since the town was founded, some for over 100 years. They still have faded painted advertisements for companies or products that are probably long since defunct. This one was photographed in Lakota, North Dakota.
9. North Dakota's small towns often have churches that are decades old and have seen generations of lives pray, marry, and so on within their walls, like this one in Absaraka.
10. What small town is complete without a grain elevator just on the edge? Even though some towns have much newer elevators further down the track now, many still have old ones that have been around for as long as the townspeople can remember, such as this one in Haynes.
If you grew up in a North Dakota small town, what are your favorite memories? Here are some retro photos that show what life was like back in the 1930s in North Dakota that will give people a glimpse of the past.
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