On This Day | Before the Reservoir

At the Garrison reservoir preliminary reconnaissance of the area was completed but did not include the Fort Berthold Indian lands. More than 50 sites of Indian villages have been found and the results indicate that excavation in this area before it is buried beneath the waters of the Garrison reservoir may provide important information on early and marginal culture complexes. Preliminary reconnaissance was completed at the Bald Hill reservoir site near Valley City. Ten sites, both mound and village, were located and indications found of several time horizons. If additional survey and excavation becomes possible, this region, now little known archeologically, may yield a partial solution to the problem of cultural interrelationships between the plains peoples to the west and woodland groups to the east.

1947-11-13 | Ward County Independent