Historical Monuments for the Senior Seminar

 

Monument

Location

Notes

Hauge Statue

Concordia College Campus, Moorhead

Done: Emily Eidsmoe, Spring 2007

Rollo Statue

Fargo

Done: Jared Sullivan, Spring 2007

Bjornson Monument

Central Campus, NDSU, Fargo

Done: John Andrews, Spring 2007

Ten Commandments

Fargo

Done: Billy Harris, Spring 2007

Walter J S Traill Cairn

Traill County

Done: Tim Haugrud, Spring 2007

Carl Ben Eielson Memorial Arch

St John’s Cemetery, Hatton

Done: Simon Hochstein, Spring 2007

Minuteman Missile Monument

LaMoure

Done: Cassie Ptacek, Spring 2007

Sitting Bull Monument

Fort Yates & Mobridge

Done: Curtis Johnson, Spring 2007

Grand Army of the Republic Monument

Island Park, Fargo

Done: Matt Spielman, Fall 2007

Old Settlers Memorial

Belmont Park, Traill County

Monument by Old Settlers Association

Hazel Miner Memorial

Center

Honoring the schoolgirl who saved the lives of her siblings in a blizzard

Noble’s Golden Marguerite

NDSU, Fargo

Done: Matt Boe, Fall 2007

Statue of Liberty Replica

Red River Bridge, Fargo

Done: Mark Popp, Fall 2007

Bjornstjerne Bjornson Statue

Mayville

Monument to the Norwegian poet

Abraham Lincoln Statue

Hillsboro

Done: Kurt Eastedrday, Fall 2007

Budd Reeves Memorial Cairn

Buxton

Done: Adam Pool, Fall 2007

Martyrs’ Graves

Walhalla

Missionaries killed by Indians or disease

Ringling Brothers Circus Monument

Wahpeton

Done: Chloe Quirk, Fall 2007

Bust of Henrik Ibsen

Wahpeton

Honoring the playwrite, by the sculptor Paul Fjelde

Sons of Martha Monument

Washburn

Erected by Harry MacLean, honoring construction engineers

Grand Army of the Republic Monument

Grand Forks

Done: Linsey Hilmer, Fall 2007

Henrik Arnold Wergeland Monument

Island Park, Fargo

Honoring the Norwegian poet and patriot

Ivar Aasen Monument

Concordia College, Moorhead

Honoring the self-taught scholar of the Norwegian language

Peace Officer Memorial

 

 

Prairie Bells a.k.a. Grotto of the Holy Family

Near Linton

Memorial constructed by the German-Russian Vetter family

Whitestone Hill Monument

SE of Kulm

At a state historic site marking Sully’s assault on a Dakota-Lakota village in 1863

Peace Officer Memorial

Reeder

Memorial to two fallen officers, Kenneth A. Lenerville and Keith Allen Braddock

Spanish War Monument

Kindred

Done: Josh Eslinger, Fall 2007

Spanish War Monument

Grafton

On county courthouse grounds

Immortal Chaplains

Bottineau

Commemorates four chaplains who went down with the troop ship Dorchester; monument dedicated Memorial Day 1956, at Catholic rectory

Pierre Bottineau

Bottineau

Statue on courthouse grounds

Butte St. Paul Monument

Near Bottineau

Commemorates Father Belcourt’s deliverance from the blizzard of 25 January 1850

Other historical monuments?  There are lots!

 

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