"Capital in Farm Country" Walking Tour

This free tour begins at Camp Hancock State Historic Site, 101 E. Main Street, and ends at the Former Governors' Mansion State Historic Site, 320 E. Ave. B. It will include about a mile of walking and last about one hour. Ice cream and hot dogs will be served at the Former Governors’ Mansion after the tour. Now in its ninth year, the walking tour illustrates how today’s Bismarck has been a capital in farm country for 700 years, with the unbroken agricultural heritage stretching back to the early Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indian nations. The tour winds past historic downtown locations including the old Northern Pacific Railway Depot, the Patterson Building, meeting points of the Nonpartisan League, Oscar Will’s seedhouse, “Bloody Fourth Street,” and more. “Historic downtown buildings are being renovated and preserved, and businesses are thriving,” says Dana Morrison, tour coordinator and site supervisor for the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center. “The ‘Capital in Farm Country’ tour shows the progression of how Bismarck became the bustling prairie city it is today.”