FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Johnathan Campbell
May 28, 2009
(701) 328-9528
BISMARCK – An exhibit, Finding North Dakota: 250 Years of Mapping, will be featured at Camp Hancock State Historic Site in Bismarck, beginning Wednesday, June 3 and remain on display through August 16.
This exhibit offers a fascinating look at how explorers and map makers have visualized the place North Dakotans now call home. Eighteenth Century maps of “America” to modern aerial and topographic maps illustrate how changes in technology separate early maps, based on observations, from modern maps, which use satellites to identify geographic features. Maps document land forms and natural resources, trade routes and passageways, soil types and waterways. The oral traditions of Native peoples preserved the names of rivers, buttes, and ancestral villages.
The exhibit is in the Bread of Life Church at the site. Camp Hancock is located at 101 West Main Street in Bismarck. It is managed and maintained by the state’s history agency, the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND).
Finding North Dakota: 250 Years of Mapping is part of the SHSND’s popular Traveling Interpretive Exhibits Services (TIES) program. For a complete listing and information about the TIES program, contact Outreach Programs Coordinator Scott Schaffnit at (701) 328-2794, email sschaffnit@nd.gov or visit the Society’s website at www.history.nd.gov.
Camp Hancock visitors will also be able to see the site’s exhibit, The Four Seasons at Camp Hancock, which examines the history of the site through the seasons. The oldest building in Bismarck, the Camp Hancock building is the only structure remaining from the U.S. Army infantry post stationed at the site from 1872 to 1877. After it was decommissioned, it served as the U.S. Weather Bureau Station for the region from 1894 to 1940.
One of 55 state historic sites managed by the SHSND, Camp Hancock State Historic Site is open from May 16 through September 15, Wednesdays through Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For schedule information, contact the SHSND at (701) 328-2666 or visit the agency’s website at www.history.nd.gov.
- 30 -
Address:
612 East Boulevard Ave.
Bismarck, North Dakota 58505
Get Directions
Hours:
Exhibit galleries and Museum Store: 8am - 5pm M-F; Sat. & Sun. 10am - 5pm.
State Archives: 8am - 4:30pm., M-F, except legal holidays, and 2nd Sat. of each month, 10am - 4:30 pm.
State Historical Society offices: 8am - 5pm M-F, except legal holidays.
Contact Us:
phone: (701) 328-2666
fax: (701) 328-3710
email: histsoc@nd.gov
