Badlands Panorama

Historical marker location:

Watford City, North Dakota

( Marker is on Theodore Roosevelt Expressway (U.S. 85), on the right when traveling north.)

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.