Dinnie Block

Historical marker location:

118 1/2 North Third Street, Grand Forks, North Dakota

( Marker is at the intersection of North Third Street and 2nd Avenue North on North Third Street.)

Marker installed: 2003

109 North Third Street. 1907 - 1997.

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.