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Did you know that the first oil in North Dakota was discovered on the Clarence Iverson farm, and the well was named after him? This monument marks the location and reads: “Oil was first discovered in North Dakota by Amerada Petroleum Corporation April 4, 1951. This Williston Basin Discovery, Clarence Iverson No. 1, opened a new era for North Dakota and reaffirmed the confidence of her people in the opportunities and future of this great state. Dedicated October 25, 1953. Tioga, North Dakota.” |
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Did you know that Lake Sakakawea is the third largest man-made lake in the United States? Construction of the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River began in 1947 and was completed in 1954 at a cost of $300 million. As we drove down to the shoreline in Chris’ four-wheel drive pickup truck, we saw piles of huge logs that had washed up on shore and bleached in the sun. It’s the biggest driftwood we’d ever seen and it tells us there were some mighty big trees drowned in the damming.
Did you know that Lake Sakakawea, which is one of the best sport fishing lakes in the Upper Great Plains, covers over 365,000 acres and has a shoreline of over 1,500 miles? Compare that to Lake Minnetonka, which is 14,500 acres and has 125 miles of shoreline. |
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Did you know that the discovery of oil on the Iverson farm in 1951 set off the oil boom? Oil men, speculators, brokers, and laborers flooded into Tioga, crowding into available living quarters, overburdening schools and community facilities. In the early 2000’s significant increases in production began because of the application of horizontal drilling techniques, especially in the Bakken Formation. Oil reserves in Western North Dakota may hold up to 400 billion barrels of oil, which is 25 times larger than the reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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