| Summary: | A history of Zap, North Dakota. 115 pages : illustrations 28 cm. KRONTHAL — In 1900 a postoffice was established in the Kronthal settlement on Sec. 14-146-87 with Robert Heiser as postmaster. Sept. 13, 1902 Peter Weigum was appointed postmaster. The origin of the name 'Kronthal' is not known. A store was erected and creamery, but the venture was not a success, the distance to the nearest grain market - New Salem - was too far. The creamery was destroyed by fire, the postoffice discontinued May 15, 1911, and mail sent to Expansion, where the store merchandise had been moved, and Kronthal soon became another ghost town. LISA'S FORT - See FORT VANDERBURGH. MANNHAVEN — A Missouri River town in Sec. 7-146-84, named for Wm. Henry Mann of New Salem, ND, an early merchant and politician, has its beginning in 1896. Mann, Jacob Bohrer, Sr. and Fred Bohrer, the townsite owners, organized and sold stock in a company known as the Mann- haven Mercantile & Transportation Co. The following year, a store building and warehouse were erected and the steamboat 'Bismarck' was built to carry grain. Mannhaven became a flourishing port until the NPRR was constructed to Killdeer in 1914, when it declined rapidly. The postoffice established Jan. 15, 1898 with Henry M. Pfenning as postmaster was discontinued March 15, 1928 and mail sent to Krem. All that remains of Mannhaven is one residence, that of J. Young, an original resident. MERCER — A short-lived rural postoffice named for its county, established Feb. 13, 1886 with Gertie Mood as postmaster; discontinued April 18, 1888 and mail sent to Stanton. MERCER CITY — Named for the county, which was named for Wm. H.H. Mercer, a pioneer rancher here. The townsite was platted by members of the Lutheran Colonization Bureau of Chicago on Sec. 5-144-85, of which about 25 lots were sold. Mercer City drew but a single resident, George Hawley, one of the first county commissioners. MORGANVILLE — On March 3, 1885 a postoffice was established in Frank C. Morgan's cabin of logs, rocks and sod, which stood about 150 feet from the bank of Spring Creek, near its mouth. The first postmaster was widely known as Longhaired Morgan. He was an educated man who chose the life of a trapper and hunter. His postoffice was at the end of the first pony express route, which started at Weller on the Bismarck-Ft. Stevenson stage route, crossed the Missouri at Elm Point, and thence ran west via Causey and Hazen to Morganville. NOESATZ — A rural postoffice established Sept. 16, 1909 with J.S. McLaughlin as postmaster; discontinued Aug. 31, 1918 and mail sent to Golden Valley. OLANTA - See Golden Valley. OLD STANTON — A thriving town with a fine landing on the Missouri at the mouth of the Big Knife River. Old Stanton grew up on land that Thos. McGrath homesteaded in 1882. In the same year his brother, James, was appointed postmaster and next year Thomas McGrath laid out the town. With the coming of the railroad it became a ghost town. In 1898 it was abandoned for the present site of Stanton. PICK CITY — Established in 1947 on the west bank of the Missouri River to accommodate Garrison Dam workers and named for Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief of the Army Engineers and co-author of the Pick-Sloan Plan for Missouri River development. REPUBLIC — A Northern Pacific Railroad spur two miles east of Zap to the Zap Collieries; constructed in 1922. Named for the Republic Coal Co. of Minneapolis, MN, owners of the mine. REE — In 1909 Expansion Lumber & Mercantile Co. established a branch lumberyard on the NW1/* Sec. 4-147-88 of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, the site of a former Arikara Indian village. A postoffice named STOELTING- TON for Benjamin Stoeltington, the local lumberyard manager, was established Dec. 2, 1908 with C.B. Heine- meyer as postmaster. An elevator and store were soon erected. The postoffice name was changed to Ree on Aug. 27, 1909 with Henry G. Klindsworth as postmaster. Ree is short for Arikara. With the coming of the NPRR into the region south of it, Ree was abandoned. The postoffice was discontinued Oct. 15, 1929 and mail sent to Beulah. The Beaver Creek Store, known locally as Ree on the 1935 map of the reservation, indicates it was in the SW14 Sec. 5-146-88, about IV2 miles from the site of the old town, inundated now by the Garrison Dam. RONDA — An inland postoffice established May 27, 1907 with John Kaufman as postmaster; discontinued Sept. 15, 1913 and mail sent to Bowish. SLATON — A postoffice established Jan. 29, 1885 in the home of the postmaster, James B. Slaton; discontinued April 14, 1891 and mail sent to Causey. SOFIA — A rural postoffice established Jan. 25, 1906 with David D Mitchell as postmaster; discontinued Dec. 10, 1913 and mail sent to Golden Valley. STANTON — Lewis and Clark found a Mandan Indian village on this site in October 1804 with the name Mah- har-ha. On the first bench overlooking the Missouri River, it later served as a river port. Two brothers, Thomas and James McGrath, came here in 1882 and built a log cabin, and next year filed a preemption and laid in a stock of groceries. On Dec. 4 of that winter, established a postoffice and gave it their mother's maiden name. James McGrath was postmaster. This village that grew up on Sec. 6-144-84 was incorporated as a village in 1909. Several years prior to 1906, the town was entirely deserted; but in that year the site was re-settled and a courthouse erected in 1907. STOELTINGTON - See REE. THOMAS - See BEULAH. TILTON'S FORT - SEE FORT TILTON. TROY - See BEULAH. ZAP — Although an "Old Settlers' History of Zap" 1944, asserts that the name was borrowed from a coal-mining hamlet in Scotland and adopted May 29, 1913, another account is that the town was named for a prominent Min- Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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