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\"robinsonnd-hansonbar\"<\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A small town tavern in central North Dakota is laying claim as the center of North America.<\/p>\n

Hanson’s Bar in Robinson now is now touting its continental bull’s-eye status after snatching the title from the nearby city of Rugby that allowed its trademark to lapse.<\/p>\n

Former Rugby Mayor Dale Niewoehner says people in his city are upset.<\/p>\n

Niewoehner says the city found out this week that it has lost its trademark phrase<\/strong> “Geographical Center of North America” to the bar in Robinson.<\/p>\n

Robinson Mayor Bill Bender says bar patrons always have been suspect of Rugby’s claim. He says Rugby’s trademark expired about 20 years ago and bar patrons raised $350 and sent it off to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to buy the trademark.<\/p>\n

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\"centernorthamericarugby\"<\/a>Rugby has claimed the “title” since 1931. \u00a0 Robinson picked up the “trademark” of the phrase recently.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the U.S. Geological Survey determined in 1931 that a point near Rugby, N.D., is the center of North America, two volunteers erected a 15-foot obelisk in town.<\/p>\n

The location of the monument was 15 miles northeast near the intersection of two highways, U.S. Highway 2 and North Dakota Highway 3, where more motorists can see it. When U.S. 2 expanded to four lanes in 1971, the obelisk was moved a short distance away.<\/p>\n

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A small town tavern in central North Dakota is laying claim as the center of North America. Hanson’s Bar in Robinson now is now touting its continental bull’s-eye status after snatching the title from the nearby city of Rugby that allowed its trademark to lapse. Former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108328,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283\/revisions\/108328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}