The Missouri River Landing Warehouse
at The Port of Bismarck
1700 N. River Road
Bismarck, North Dakota
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John Warford (r), Capital Campaign Chair and Bismarck Mayor (2002-2014), and Erik Sakariassen (l), Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation Chair.
"The Missouri River is the 'Crown Jewel' of North Dakota. With all of our help, the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation will get this vital and historic replica building built for our community. This stretch of the river, right here in Bismarck, bustled as a commodity exchange hub with steamboat and railroad activity. It included a complex of warehouses, restaurants, railroad labor camps, hotels, saloons, and the growing City of Edwinton, named Bismarck in 1873. With this project and your help, we are going to tell those individual stories."
~John Warford, Bismarck Mayor 2002-2014
Capital Campaign Chair 
Landscape rendering
Since the Missouri River flood of 2011, the Port of Bismarck has been left with an empty lot and a ticket office trailer. It is more than time to do something about that. The Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation feels it a privilege to leverage our 501(c)3 non-profit status to continue to benefit Bismarck-Mandan.
We designed a road map for another heritage reconstruction. The plans for the Missouri River Warehouse Landing were born out of historical research and through conversational input from community leaders, residents, and visitors. The namesake comes from the historic Northern Pacific Railroad Company’s River Landing Warehouse. Think post and beam milled lumber atop elevated piers along a riverfront wharf. That was a part of Bismarck's historic core, both in Dakota Territorial years and after statehood in 1889. We are ready to rebuild that today. To inquire further about this project and to get involved, click on the "Learn More" link below. This is a shared heritage and a shared history. |
About Us
The Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation's mission and purpose is to preserve, promote and develop heritage tourism sites and educational activities of significance to North Dakota, particularly in the Bismarck-Mandan region, and to maximize the educational and economic benefits resulting from those sites and activities.
Over thirty years ago, a group of local leaders in business, tourism and education formed the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation as a 501(c)3 non-profit. From that time, the Foundation raised and invested over $10-million in private and public bricks-and-mortar infrastructure and humanities programming in the Bismarck-Mandan region.
The Foundation owns and operates heritage tourism businesses, including the Lewis & Clark riverboat, Five Nations Arts, and The Post. The Foundation also collaborates with the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation, the local 501(c)3 coordinating organization for one of the 49 National Heritage Areas overseen by the National Park Service.
Over thirty years ago, a group of local leaders in business, tourism and education formed the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation as a 501(c)3 non-profit. From that time, the Foundation raised and invested over $10-million in private and public bricks-and-mortar infrastructure and humanities programming in the Bismarck-Mandan region.
The Foundation owns and operates heritage tourism businesses, including the Lewis & Clark riverboat, Five Nations Arts, and The Post. The Foundation also collaborates with the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation, the local 501(c)3 coordinating organization for one of the 49 National Heritage Areas overseen by the National Park Service.
