Dakota Datebook

State Mill and Elevator

October 30, 2019 — On this date in 1922, Governor Rangvold Nestos pushed a button that officially started the machinery of the soon-tobe-completed North Dakota Mill and Elevator in downtown Grand Forks. To this day, it is still the only stateowned elevator in the nation. Prior to the building of the mill, North Dakota farmers had been at the mercy of the grain exchange and flourmill...

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