PLAZA – The State Historical Board will review the nomination of the Wabek Consolidated School for listing in the State Historic Sites Registry at its meeting Friday, Oct. 11. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the boardroom at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck and is open to the public.

Wabek Consolidated School is located about four miles south of Plaza in Mountrail County. It was established in 1917 when two one-room schoolhouses were moved together and physically connected. This consolidation accommodated more students and expanded educational opportunities with the addition of a second teacher. In the 1930s, this school served more than 100 students, offered high school courses, had a grass ball field and its own baseball team.

As a large building with two acres of land, the school also hosted many social events, including a speech by Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1920. Today, this physically consolidated school is one of only three remaining in the state.

Written comments on the nomination may be submitted to the State Historic Sites Registry of the State Historical Society of North Dakota until 5 p.m. on Oct. 9.