Frontier Village and World’s Largest Buffalo Monument – Jamestown, North Dakota
You now have the opportunity to go to a prairie town from the early days of the west. In Jamestown they have re-created the town by bringing 24 original buildings from the frontier villages across North Dakota to this site and filled them with antiques and artifacts to let you experience what life was like for those that lived on the prairie.
The village has a barbershop, a blockhouse gate, a caboose, a church, drugstore, jail, log fire hall, log headquarters building, mine shaft, pioneer schoolhouse, post office, a print shop and a railway depot. You can stop in at the visitor information center and pick up a description of the village and enjoy the tour.
There is a place where you can feed the buffalo in the village, and if it is the right season you will be able to see the baby bison while you are there. You can also take a stage coach ride or let the kids go on the pony rides.
In the small natural amphitheater stage they occasionally perform various shows during the season. Now, most of these are free right along with a visit to the village. The stage coach ride and the pony rides do have a small fee attached to them.
The village is also home to the World’s Largest Buffalo Monument where the live ones will be grazing right beneath it. Quite a site!
Location: I-94, Exit 258, Jamestown, ND, 58401
Phone 1 (701) 251-9145
Phone 2 (800) 222-4766
Email guestinfo@tourjamestown.com
Handicapped Accessible Yes
Time Allowance 1 1/2 hours
Directions 100 miles west of Fargo, ND, or 100 miles east of Bismarck, ND, on I-94, Exit 258
I was wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a certain name for the job of the stagecoach driver? and if there is a certain name for the job of the man who rides shot gun?
I was wondering because I recently found out that my Grandfather had the job of coachman in Iowa around 1900 to 1910.
Thank You,
Brenda Clark