The Cass County Historical Society – Bonanzaville USA was awarded a $5,000 grant for the repair of the Hunter Times building on its grounds. The Hunter Times provides a look back in time to the early newspaper industry in North Dakota. The weekly newspaper building includes the Cottrell cylinder press that printed the weekly paper until 1969. All the equipment, including the Intertype typesetting machine is operational. The Hunter Times building is an ideal venue for presenting the history of newspapers, demonstrating historic printing equipment, and stimulating interest in future professions in the field.
The Cass County North Dakota Historical Society (CCNDHS) is the cultural institution in charge of telling the county’s story, as well as preserving and collecting artifacts connected to the county’s history. CCNDHS owns and operates a museum, event center, and prairie village that sits on twelve acres of land in West Fargo, North Dakota called Bonanzaville. Bonanzaville includes a large main museum, thirty-six historic buildings, a carriage house, a car museum, an air museum, a tractor museum, an agricultural museum, and a law enforcement museum.
The Alex Stern Family Foundation supports the arts, social welfare/human services, education, youth recreation, civic projects and health issues for the benefit of the greater Fargo-Moorhead area. Alex Stern was born in Illinois in 1858 and came to Fargo, North Dakota in 1880 to found Alex-Stern & Company. Alex Stern had three sons, two sons seeing no direct heirs in the Stern family, set up the Alex Stern Family Foundation when they inherited William’s estate in 1964 as a way to honor their family members. The Foundation was to become active upon the last brother’s death, which occurred in 1977.
