Features
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A history of movie theaters in Devils Lake
Long before Devils Lake welcomed its current movie theater, classic films graced the screens of earlier theaters, including Hollywood Theater and the Lake Theatre.
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Devils Lake Original Townsite Was Creelsburgh
Lieutenant Heber M. Creel a graduate of West Point resigned from the Army and settled or more correctly, squatted on the southeast quarter of Section 34 Township 154 Range 64. He surveyed a townsite and called it Creelsburgh.
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Notable Assassinations from the DLJ Archives
A number of notable assassinations were covered in the pages of the Devils Lake Journal through the years including the following:
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North Dakota’s Black History
In North Dakota, the African American population has grown, though historically the numbers were few. But there have been African Americans in the state as long as there have been white people. Early records indicate that the earliest came as slaves of explorers and traders. In fact, the first non-Native…
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See you in the funny papers
In the 1997 political thriller “Murder at 1600,” Alvin Jordan, played by Alan Alda, meets the movie’s protagonist, D.C. Metro Police Detective Harlan Regis, portrayed by Wesley Snipes. Towards the end of the scene, Jordan said to the detective that Harvard had once done a study indicating that one could…
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AI Roosevelt avatar ready for your questions – but stick to the past
It comes straight from the man himself – or at least an artificial intelligence, avatar version – so it must be true.
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Theodore Roosevelt library opening recalls past, calls for civic engagement
MEDORA, N.D. (July 4, 2026) — Theodore Roosevelt V said his great-great-grandfather thought U.S. citizenship was not to be treated as an inherited title, but something that required service and responsibility.