Outpost on the Missouri

Historical marker location:

15550 N. Dakota 1804, Williston, North Dakota

( Marker is on State Highway 1804.)

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.