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Trails to the Past
Trails to the Past of North Dakota is excepting any donations of genealogy materials that you may have such as marriage announcements, news articles, old obituaries, births, (you do not need the birth certificate) just the information, and biographies. If you have any of these items please contact me Marie Miller the North Dakota State Administrator.
Wells County was created by the 1872-1873 territorial legislature and named after Edward Payson Wells, a Jamestown banker, early promoter of the James River Valley, and member of the legislature in 1881. The county government was organized on August 28, 1884. The county seat was Sykeston from 1884 to 1894, after which time Fessenden was given the title.
The cities of Wells County are Bowdon, Cathay, Fessenden, Hamberg, Harvey, Hurdsfield, and Sykeston with unincorporated communities of Bremen, Chaseley, and Heaton.
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Townships of Wells County
Berlin
Bilodeau
Bremen
Bull Moose
Cathay
Chaseley
Crystal Lake
Delger
Fairville
Forward
Fram
Germantown |
Haaland
Hamburg
Hawksnest
Heimdal
Hillsdale
Johnson
Lynn
Manfred
Norway Lake
Oshkosh
Pony Gulch
Progress |
Rusland
Saint Anna
Silver Lake
South Cottonwood
Speedwell
Sykeston
Valhalla
Wells
West Norway
West Ontario
Western
Woodward |
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Adjacent Counties
Benson County (north)
Eddy County (east)
Foster County (east)
Stutsman County (southeast)
Kidder County (south)
Sheridan County (west)
Pierce County (northwest)
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