Stagecoach Relay Station

Historical marker location:

Oakes, North Dakota

( Marker can be reached from 85th Street Southeast, 0.3 miles west of 110th Ave SE, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1986

North Dakota was the site of one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history, the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888. The storm struck without warning and claimed the lives of more than 200 people, many of whom were schoolchildren caught in the blizzard on their way home from school.