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'''Bowesmont''' is ana [[Unincorporated area|unincorporatedghost communitytown]] in [[Pembina County, North Dakota|Pembina County]], [[North Dakota]], [[United States]]. Bowesmont is located along a [[BNSF Railroad]] line near [[Interstate 29]], {{convert|8.2|mi|km}} north of [[Drayton, North Dakota|Drayton]].<ref>{{cite map |publisher=[[North Dakota Department of Transportation]] |title=Pembina County |url=http://www.dot.nd.gov/road-map/pdf/counties/pembina_sheet2.pdf |trans_title= |language= |format=PDF |edition= |date= |year=2006 |cartography= |scale= |series= |page= |pages= |section= |inset= |accessdate=March 14, 2012 |isbnarchiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002043106/http://www.dot.nd.gov/road-map/pdf/counties/pembina_sheet2.pdf |idurl-status=dead |refarchivedate=October |archiveurl=2, |archivedate=2006}}</ref> The community was initially named Alma for [[Alma, Ontario]] in 1878; the name was changed to Bowesmont, for William Bowes, the town's first shopkeeper, six months later.<ref name="gnis"/> According to legend, Bowes won the right to name the town in a card game.<ref>{{cite book|title=North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State|year=1938|publisher=[[Works Progress Administration]]|pages=352|author=[[Federal Writers' Project]] workers}}</ref>
<p>Bowesmont was devastated by flooding of the Red River in 1997. Only an old church is left in what is now a ghost town. http://=www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/2009/12/01/bowesmont-church An annual pilgrimage occurs the second Sunday of July where old friends, family and neighbors meet in the old church to celebrate what was the town they loved. https://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/regions/regionviii/jurnys32.pdf▼
 
▲<p>Bowesmont was devastated by floodingthe of the[[1997 Red River in 1997flood]]. Only an old church isand lefta insmall whattrucking isoutfit noware aleft, with ghostno town.residential http://=wwwarea.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/2009/12/01/bowesmont-church An annual pilgrimage occurs theevery second Sunday of July where old friends, family andformer neighborsresidents meet in the old church to celebrate what wascommemorate the town.<ref>{{cite theyweb loved|title=Bowesmont... The Little Town that Lives in the Heart |url=https://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/regions/regionviii/jurnys32.pdf |access-date=17 July 2024}}</ref>
==Notable residents==▼
 
▲==Notable residentsperson==
*[[Harold Keith Johnson]], [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army]] from 1964 to 1968<ref>{{cite book|last=Capace|first=Nancy|title=Encyclopedia of North Dakota|year=2001|publisher=Somerset Publishers|pages=411}}</ref>
 
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==External links==
*[http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16921coll1/id/599 Pioneer Women's Histories : Drayton and Bowesmont] from the [http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/ Digital Horizons website]
 
 
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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Pembina County, North Dakota]]
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