Editing Walhalla, North Dakota (section)

==History==
[[File:AntoineBlancGingras1855.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Antoine Blanc Gingras]]

Walhalla was established in 1845.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://walhalland.org/history.php |title=History | publisher=City of Walhalla, ND|access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref> The city was originally named St. Joseph (St. Jo) after the local Catholic mission, Walhalla is the second oldest town in North Dakota, its history bound up in the [[fur trade]] of the [[Red River Valley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countryhomesofnorthdakota.com/city/detail/?id=27666 |title=City Data for Walhalla, ND |publisher=LandsofAmerica.com |access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=July 19: The Red River Resistance |url=https://news.prairiepublic.org/podcast/dakota-datebook/2024-07-19/july-19-the-red-river-resistance |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Prairie Public |language=en}}</ref> One mile northeast of town was the [[North West Company]] fur trading post, established in 1797 by British-Canadian surveyor and cartographer [[David Thompson (explorer)|David Thompson]] (1770–1857), and in 1801 moved to a site one mile east of Walhalla, where a reconstructed building is now located.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/thompson_david/#.Xl_Ol0plAdU |title=David Thompson (1770-1857) |website=Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society |access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/2016/08/15/gingras-trading-post/ |title=Oldest Standing Structures in North Dakota |website=Ghosts of North Dakota |author=Troy Larson |date=August 15, 2016|access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref>

Also about one mile northeast of Walhalla is the [[Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site|Gingras Trading Post]],<ref>[http://www.nd.gov/hist/gingras/index.html Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site] State Historical Society of North Dakota</ref> established in the 1840s by the [[Métis]] legislator and businessman [[Antoine Blanc Gingras]] (1821-1877).
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/riel_louis_1817_64_9E.html |title=Antoine-Blanc Gingras (1821-1877) Metis Trader and Resistance Activist |website=Louis Riel Institute |access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref>

In town is the Kittson Trading Post, established in 1843 by [[Norman Kittson]] (1814–1888), an [[American Fur Company]] agent. This is the oldest building in North Dakota. It is located in the [[Walhalla State Historical Park]] and is preserved by the State Historical Society.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/kittson_nw.shtml |title=Memorable Manitobans: Norman Wolfred Kittson (1814-1888) |website=Manitoba Historical Society |access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countryhomesofnorthdakota.com/city/detail/?id=27666 |title=City Data for City of Walhalla, ND |publisher=LandsofAmerica.com |access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref>

The [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] arrived in Walhalla in 1898.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA842 |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |publisher=Routledge |date=May 13, 2013 |access-date=November 30, 2013 |author=Hellmann, Paul T. |pages=842 |isbn=978-1135948597}}</ref>

The town was the site of a protest against [[TransCanada Corporation|TransCanada]]'s [[Keystone Pipeline]] in October 2016, when documentarian [[Deia Schlosberg]] was arrested.<ref name="huffingtonfilmmakerarrested">{{cite news|last1=Visser |first1=Nick |title=Filmmaker Arrested At Pipeline Protest Facing 45 Years In Felony Charges |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deia-schlosberg-arrested-north-dakota_us_58004d81e4b0162c043b342d |access-date=October 16, 2016 |work=The Huffington Post |quote=Deia Schlosberg, the producer of the upcoming documentary “How to Let Go of the World and Love All Things Climate Can’t Change,” was detained while filming a protest against TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota. |date=October 14, 2016}}</ref>