October 12, 2016
 

Dedication of Historical Marker to be Held in Valley City

BISMARCK, ND – A dedication ceremony for a historical marker in memory of former Valley City businessman Herman Stern will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 15, at Valley City’s Veterans Memorial Park.
 
In 2005 the Fifty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota authorized the State Historical Society of North Dakota to develop and administer a historical marker program designed to highlight locations that meet one of the following criteria: person of state or national significance; place of state or national significance; or event of state or national significance. 
 
The North Dakota Historical Marker program is administered by the State Historical Society of North Dakota and all costs including production, installation, and maintenance of a historical marker are the responsibility of the applicant or sponsor of the marker.

Although this program was authorized in 2005, the first application was not received until 2015. The marker will commemorate the life and work of Herman Stern, a German Jewish emigrant who moved to North Dakota in 1903 and began a successful business career in Carrington, Casselton, and later Valley City.  In the 1930s, with the aid of his wife, Adeline, and cooperation from U.S. Senator Gerald Nye, Stern managed to bring more than 125 Jewish refugees from Germany to new lives in the United States. For his many achievements and contributions to the state, Stern was inducted into the Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Hall of Fame in 2014. This marker was entered in the North Dakota Historical Marker Register as marker #1 in 2016.

The Herman Stern marker will be located in Veterans Memorial Park in Valley City and is cosponsored by the Barnes County Historical Society and the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.

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