Lithia, North Dakota

USA / North Dakota / Christine /
Accounts differ as to whether William T. Montgomery was a freed slave, or the son of a slave, but it is clear that this black man had had considerable formal education when he homesteaded in Section 11-136-49, Eagle Township in the 1880's. About 1888 he built an elevator where the Milwaukee Road Railroad crossed his land, and named it for his mother, although some sources say it was named for Lithia, Massachusetts. In the early 1900's a small village began, and a general store operated at the site 1909-1920. The elevator closed in 1963 and was moved into Walcott in the 1970's, leaving the site vacant.
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Coordinates:   46°36'52"N   96°48'54"W
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