Sanish, North Dakota

In October 1914, a news article had announced that newly founded town of Sanish was going to be surveyed their town site in Mountrail County, North Dakota. Three months later, in January 1915, a post office was registered named, "Sanish".^[2] And not too long later the Sanish Sentinel was first published. Sanish's new Catholic church celebrated the first mass in August.^[2] Throughout 1915, Old Sanish had supported around 50 businesses, rewarding itself the "city of ambition". The town had reached around 700 civilians.^[2]

Near the end of 1949, property holders in the city suggested a new townsite to be lived in by Sanish and Van Hook residents, because the two towns were bound to be engulfed by the waters of the Lake Sakakawea project after construction of the Garrison Dam. After said proposal, the New Sanish Townsite was finished. In April 1953, plots of land were beginning to be sold, and that same spring the Sanish post office reopened in New Sanish. New Sanish had around 120 people living there now, and Old Sanish became submerged under the Sakakawea.^[2]

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