Tractor Church 1091 A
Sentinel Butte, population 61, in Golden Valley County, North Dakota, is named for the butte just south of town, which at an elevation of 3,400 ft is the third highest point in North Dakota. The town was founded in 1906.
The butte’s name refers to two Arikara scouts who died tracking for General Sully’s Sioux war expedition of 1864, which passed through the area. There’s a memorial to the scouts at the top of the butte.
Sentinel Butted still has a gas station, Olson’s Service, which became famous in the 1990s, featured on Oprah and other TV shows, because it operated at that time unattended, on the honor system, open 24/7 – like some cottage country fruit and vegetable stands are still run today. Customers pumped their own gas, then deposited the money through a slot on the door.
The Catholic church in the photo no longer has services. I believe it’s being used by the city.
The town holds an annual antique tractor parade.
The North Dakota badlands are less than 20 miles east of town.
Custer and the Seventh Cavalry camped here for two days during their march to the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, snowed-in by a late Spring storm.
Tractor Church 1091 A
Sentinel Butte, population 61, in Golden Valley County, North Dakota, is named for the butte just south of town, which at an elevation of 3,400 ft is the third highest point in North Dakota. The town was founded in 1906.
The butte’s name refers to two Arikara scouts who died tracking for General Sully’s Sioux war expedition of 1864, which passed through the area. There’s a memorial to the scouts at the top of the butte.
Sentinel Butted still has a gas station, Olson’s Service, which became famous in the 1990s, featured on Oprah and other TV shows, because it operated at that time unattended, on the honor system, open 24/7 – like some cottage country fruit and vegetable stands are still run today. Customers pumped their own gas, then deposited the money through a slot on the door.
The Catholic church in the photo no longer has services. I believe it’s being used by the city.
The town holds an annual antique tractor parade.
The North Dakota badlands are less than 20 miles east of town.
Custer and the Seventh Cavalry camped here for two days during their march to the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, snowed-in by a late Spring storm.