| Summary: | TIRSBOL: A rural post office established May 3, 1898 with Egile Keller, postmaster; discontinued April 29, 1903 and mail sent to Stras- burg. This place was no doubt named for Tiraspol, the diocese for the Catholic German-Russians in South Russia. (80; Rev. Benedict Pfaller, O.S.B. Assumption Abbey, Richardton, N. Dak.) WESTFIELD: In 1884 a country store opened up on Sec. 4-129-76 in the center of a Dutch settlement in which a post office was established Feb. 18, 1888 with Henry Van Beck, postmaster; discontinued in 1902 and mail sent to Hague. It was named for Westfield, Iowa, former home of local residents. (74, 4/17/41, p. 1; 80) WILLIAMSPORT: This inland town on the NW% Sec. 15-135-76 that was once the county seat is but a ghost town now. It was named for Daniel Williams, the first postmaster appointed Sept. 7, 1883. He was also the first register of deeds in Emmons and Burleigh Counties and first warden of the State Penitentiary. The post office was discontinued Nov. 18, 1903 and mail sent to Hazelton. (80; 81; 83) WINCHESTER: This townsite promoted by Burnstad and Gillett on Sec. 1-132-77 on the banks of Beaver Creek near the center of the county was named for Judge Walter H. Winchester, Bismarck judge of the Sixth District Court. The post office was established Aug. 21, 1884 with Nathaniel M. Gillett, postmaster; discontinued Dec. 15, 1909. The growth of Linton after it was designated the county seat, killed the development of Winchester. (80) WINONA: On the east bank of the Missouri River across from Fort Yates, in the heyday of this military post, there sprang up at the mouth of Cat Tail Creek a town on Sec. 5-130-79 given an Indian name, Winona, by H. F. Douglas, the post trader. The meaning in Indian, "First born child — if a girl." The post office was established May 19, 1884 with James G. Pitts, postmaster; discontinued in 1889. Winona was once an enterprising town in the center of a growing ranching country and a natural corollary of the restrictions of military life at Fort Yates. After the abandonment of the post in 1912, Winona began to decline and today is a ghost town with only a few cellars and a solitary group of trees to mark the site. (7, p. 317; 80) FOSTER COUNTY BARLOW: This Northern Pacific townsite was named for its founder, Frederick G. Barlow, who operated the first general merchandise store, where the post office was established June 3,1884 and he was appointed postmaster. This was one-half mile south of the town's present site. 110 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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