Tobacco Garden

This was a rural post office established December 22, 1906 with Rev. Peder G. Arnstad (1871)-1948) as pm. Rev. Arnstad, a Lutheran minister, was born in Norway and came here from MN in 1905.  The post office was located in N 1/2 Sec.10-151-98, Garden Twp., eight miles NNE of Watford City, and named for a nearby creek and boat landing at the creeks mouth. Preliminary application forms show this post office as Garden, but postal officials apparently ignored the one-word tadition and allowed the two-word historic place name to be used.  The post office closed October 31, 1916 with mail to Schafer.