Pembina County, North Dakota
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Pembina County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,844, and was estimated to be 6,568 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is Cavalier.
Pembina County Courthouse before 1920
Frontier doctor Dr. Charles Boarman Harris, one of the original pioneers to settle in Pembina, was the first county physician. He delivered over 3,000 babies born in the region between 1882 and 1942.
Pembina, North Dakota
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Pembina is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 512 at the 2020 census. Pembina is 2 miles south of the Canada–US border. Interstate 29 passes on the western side
Pembina County, North Dakota
…previously unorganized territory. Its government was organized on August 12 of that same year. It was named for a Chippewa term for stab or stabbing. Pembina, the oldest European-American settlement in the future state, was the county seat. In 1911 the seat was relocated to Cavalier. The county boundaries…
Building and water tower in Pembina
Fort Daer of the HBC and across the Pembina River on the right old Fort Pembina built by the NWC (painted by Peter Rindisbacher in 1822)
Preparing Red River ox cart at Pembina, North Dakota, for trip to St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota
Fort Pembina and Red River ox carts, c. 1870