A Beaver Boom

Historical marker location:

15349 39th Lane Northwest, Williston, North Dakota

( Marker can be reached from 39th Lane Northwest near 153rd Avenue Northwest.)

Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center.

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.