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Located east of Dunn Center, on 95^th Avenue, Lynch’s Knife River Flint Quarries have historical value, as it is where Native Americans camped and harvested flint for their tools and weapons. This type of flint has been traded throughout the continent for centuries. Privately owned, please call ahead 701-548-8111.

Little Missouri River, the only designated scenic river in North Dakota, offers canoeing as a major recreation attraction, especially in the spring when runoff raises the water levels to the most acceptable levels. Canoers will enjoy not only the magnificent scenery as the river weaves in and out of the buttes, but also glimpses of howling coyotes, occasional soaring golden eagles and other Badlands wildlife.

The Hutmacher Farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered the Midwest’s finest still-standing example of the earthen abodes built by Germans from Russia. Unbelievably, Alex Hutmacher lived here until 1979. The Hutmacher farmstead is a good example of what immigrants were willing to endure for their chance at the American dream. With no trees available for building material, and purchased lumber out of their price range, many settlers on the prairie spent their first years in dwellings like this, built from the only material available — the earth itself. Many had left behind nice homes (and most of their worldly possessions) in Europe, to move to dwellings like this, where there were daily encounters with vermin and insects, and where the roof needed constant maintenance to stave-off leaks, but the promise of new opportunity was worth the hardship. Photo credit: Kim Dvorak