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Enderlin’s post office opened in 1891, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

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31%homes built before 1940
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How Enderlin began

When was Enderlin founded?

1891

The Enderlin post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 881135 years
Founding year: the first Enderlin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Enderlin’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Enderlin are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Enderlin’s homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Enderlin’s history is told.

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The story

How Enderlin came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Enderlin.

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Enderlin was founded on October 7, 1891. One of the oldest buildings in town, the Robert Lindemann House, was built in 1913 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Local folklore suggests the name is derived from the semi-German "End der Line" ("end of the line"), as the city was briefly the terminus of the Soo Line Railroad's main line through North Dakota. Another explanation is that the name was suggested by the wife of a Soo Line official and comes from a fictional character in a book.

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Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Enderlin, 1891 to 1940

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Enderlin post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1905Born hereT. Keith Glennan is born here
  5. 1940Born hereGaylord T. Gunhus is born here
By decade

Enderlin, decade by decade

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Famous people

2 famous people were born in Enderlin

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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T. Keith GlennanNASA administrator · b. 1905
Gaylord T. GunhusRetired American Army officer and chaplain · b. 1940
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Liberty TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPontiac Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Enderlin’s history

What year was Enderlin founded?

The Enderlin post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.