The Burleigh County Courthouse is located at 514 East Thayer Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58503; phone: 701-222-6690.
Oliver and Gertrude Lundquist House, circa 1921, located at 622 West Thayer Street, Bismarck. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Photographed by wij=kipedia User: Jim Roberts own work), 2017, [cc-4.0], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed July, 2022.
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The county is named for Walter A. Burleigh, an Indian trader and agent, delegate to Congress and a contractor for the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for 50 miles east from Bismarck. [Colonel Clement A. Lounsberry, Early History of North Dakota, Liberty Press, Washington, D.C., 1919]
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