Returning to the Missouri River
MISSOURI VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE
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Dr. WARFORD AND MAJOR GENERAL SPRY WANT YOU TO BE A HERITAGE ALLY
Former Bismarck Mayor John Warford (l) and retired North Dakota National Guard Adjutant General David Sprynczynatyk (r), co-chairs of the Phase II capital campaign for the Heritage River Landing.
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N.D. United States Senator John Hoeven
N.D. United States Senator Heidi Heitkamp
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Connecting people and place through heritage tourism and education.
Our place on the river was a bustling crossroads of trade and transportation long before the arrival of Europeans on the continent. We share a rich and diverse history, steeped in the oral traditions of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, the Lakota and Dakota and other tribes, transformed by exploration and the fur trade, steamboat travel, military campaigns and conflict, the coming of the railroad, western settlement, immigration and homesteading, agriculture and energy development. We have a big story to tell.
The Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation is rebranding itself the Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance to reflect a broader mission and tell that bigger story.
The Bismarck Mayor’s Livability Summit in March of 2017 reported that a majority of respondents in a recent livability survey identified the Missouri River as among the community’s greatest assets. Tourism is the third largest industry in our state. Annual visitor spending is greater than $3 billion, generating more than $1.3 billion in wages and salaries and $325 million in tax revenue, according to the Tourism Division of the North Dakota Department of Commerce.
The Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance has embarked on phase II of a campaign to erect a river landing warehouse. Our place on the river will be a twenty-first century take on the post-and-beam warehouses that crowded the riverfront in the nineteenth century. The facility will house a restaurant with food and beverage service, a gift shop with ticket concessions for the Lewis and Clark Riverboat, and interpretive displays with an interactive kiosk to guide and encourage visitors to explore the scenic, historic, and recreational opportunities that abound on our reach of the Missouri River.
The Heritage River Landing will serve as a community event space for weddings and family gatherings, holiday parties and corporate retreats. It will drive user traffic to our riverfront parks and recreational trails on the Missouri River in central North Dakota. It will be a hub of vitality on the banks of our most-cherished resource. It will foster an appreciation and understanding of our place in history as the regional interpretive headquarters for the Northern Plains National Heritage Area, established through the National Park Service.
History is the owner’s manual of citizenship. It informs who we are. It illuminates the complexity of circumstance that set us on the path we follow. Heritage tourism engages us to experience history first hand, through museum exhibits and historic sites, interpretive programs and heritage education. Become a heritage ally. Join us as we build our place on the river. You will be a part of history.
Our place on the river was a bustling crossroads of trade and transportation long before the arrival of Europeans on the continent. We share a rich and diverse history, steeped in the oral traditions of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, the Lakota and Dakota and other tribes, transformed by exploration and the fur trade, steamboat travel, military campaigns and conflict, the coming of the railroad, western settlement, immigration and homesteading, agriculture and energy development. We have a big story to tell.
The Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation is rebranding itself the Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance to reflect a broader mission and tell that bigger story.
The Bismarck Mayor’s Livability Summit in March of 2017 reported that a majority of respondents in a recent livability survey identified the Missouri River as among the community’s greatest assets. Tourism is the third largest industry in our state. Annual visitor spending is greater than $3 billion, generating more than $1.3 billion in wages and salaries and $325 million in tax revenue, according to the Tourism Division of the North Dakota Department of Commerce.
The Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance has embarked on phase II of a campaign to erect a river landing warehouse. Our place on the river will be a twenty-first century take on the post-and-beam warehouses that crowded the riverfront in the nineteenth century. The facility will house a restaurant with food and beverage service, a gift shop with ticket concessions for the Lewis and Clark Riverboat, and interpretive displays with an interactive kiosk to guide and encourage visitors to explore the scenic, historic, and recreational opportunities that abound on our reach of the Missouri River.
The Heritage River Landing will serve as a community event space for weddings and family gatherings, holiday parties and corporate retreats. It will drive user traffic to our riverfront parks and recreational trails on the Missouri River in central North Dakota. It will be a hub of vitality on the banks of our most-cherished resource. It will foster an appreciation and understanding of our place in history as the regional interpretive headquarters for the Northern Plains National Heritage Area, established through the National Park Service.
History is the owner’s manual of citizenship. It informs who we are. It illuminates the complexity of circumstance that set us on the path we follow. Heritage tourism engages us to experience history first hand, through museum exhibits and historic sites, interpretive programs and heritage education. Become a heritage ally. Join us as we build our place on the river. You will be a part of history.
A 3D RENDERING OF
THE HERITAGE RIVER LANDING
THE HERITAGE RIVER LANDING