Hutmacher Site

Last Saturday, I took my family out to see the Hutmacher site in Dunn County. This is a great historic site that has recently been acquired by Preservation North Dakota in order to stabilize and restore the buildings. The Executive Director for PND, Dale Bentley, told me the organization is looking for volunteers who are interested in helping out. They are also hoping to develop some experiential learning packages with the North Dakota Tourism Division. It will be exciting to see how this project develops in the next couple of years. Especially as the site was one of PND's "3 Most Endangered Properties" for 2003. There are several other historic sites and areas of interest in that area that would make a great vacation. The nearby Killdeer Mountains are full of interesting historic and geologic sites worth visiting including the Knife River flint quarry site, Medicine Hole, and the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield site. This is exactly the type of activity a lot of our visitors are looking for, so another site in the area will prove a great asset.