{"id":143025,"date":"2026-04-20T01:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=143025"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:25:09","slug":"this-day-in-history-april-20-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=143025","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8211; April 20, 1883"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ThisDayInHistoryJMSasCity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143026\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ThisDayInHistoryJMSasCity-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ThisDayInHistoryJMSasCity-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ThisDayInHistoryJMSasCity-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ThisDayInHistoryJMSasCity.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This Day In History, April 20, 1883 \u2013 Dakota Territory proclaims\u00a0 Jamestown as a City . . . .\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u00a0from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Great Seal of Dakota Territory affixed by James H. Teller to document proclaiming Jamestown as a City.<\/p>\n<p>The community had outgrown the village form of government it had operated under. That winter a bill was passed by the territorial assembly incorporating Jamestown as a city. The first city elections were held in April 1883.(*1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johnson Nickeus, born in 1850, played a number of roles in the final years of Dakota Territory. \u00a0He was an attorney in Jamestown who served two terms on the Territorial Legislative Council, which included the last session at Yankton and the first one at Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1883, Nickeus introduced the bill to incorporate the city of Jamestown, which passed up to Governor Nehemiah Ordway, who for whatever reason, didn\u2019t sign or veto the legislation, so Territorial Secretary James H. Teller affixed the territory\u2019s Great Seal to make the incorporation official.(*3)<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>town of<\/em>\u00a0<em>Jamestown<\/em>, North Dakota.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Jamestown<\/em>\u00a0is one of the oldest\u00a0<em>cities<\/em>\u00a0in North Dakota. It was founded in 1872, before the county it resided in existed &#8211; actually, before any official county in the entire\u00a0<em>Dakota Territory<\/em>\u00a0existed! That&#8217;s including both North and South Dakota.(*2)<\/p>\n<p>(1)-Jamestown Alert<\/p>\n<p>(2)-http:\/\/www.onlyinyourstate.com\/north-dakota\/jamestown-nd\/<\/p>\n<p>(3)-http:\/\/news.prairiepublic.org\/post\/last-territorial-ag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Day In History, April 20, 1883 \u2013 Dakota Territory proclaims\u00a0 Jamestown as a City . . . .\u00a0\u00a0from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History The Great Seal of Dakota Territory affixed by James H. Teller to document proclaiming Jamestown as a City. 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