Fifth Avenue, Jamestown, Dakota Territory, early 1880s — street procession

Stutsman County Memorial Museum · Jamestown, Stutsman County, Dakota Territory · 1885

date confidence: approximate

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Summary

A mounted early-1880s photograph of **Fifth Avenue, Jamestown, Dakota Territory**, showing a busy commercial street with a procession/gathering of people and wagons in the roadway and the James River National Bank (E. P. Wells, president) among the storefronts. Held by the Stutsman County Memorial Museum. Streetscape context for the Dakota chapter — the frontier main-street world the family's Jamestown figures moved through. No family persons identifiable.

Also mentioned

  • E. P. Wells · bank_president

    President, James River National Bank, Jamestown. Civic figure, not family.

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Related sources

Source ID: 1885_jamestown-dak_fifth-avenue-parade-photo

Reference: Mounted photo, captioned "James River National Bank — E. P. Wells, President. Fifth Avenue in the Early 1880's"

Accessed by lukedmurphy on 2026-05-27.