10/02/2026
Sheriff Hank Wants to Hear Your Stories!
The history of the Chateau de Morès is about much more than the years the Marquis and Medora lived here.
The Chateau has been a family home, a boarding house and tea room, a Civilian Conservation Corps project, a museum, and a state historic site. And through every chapter, there were people here whose stories became part of its history.
Over the last few years, we have been fortunate to meet visitors with some remarkable connections to the Chateau. We have met relatives of servants who worked for the Marquis and Medora, relatives of guests who stayed here during the boarding house years, descendants of the last caretakers, relatives of the CCC boys who worked at the site, and even relatives of the site supervisors who cared for the Chateau after it became a museum.
Every one of them had a story to tell.
Now Sheriff Hank and the Site Supervisor are teaming up to ask for your stories.
History is memory, and your memories count.
Maybe you visited the Chateau as a child. Maybe someone in your family worked here. Maybe your grandparents talked about the CCC boys. Maybe a relative remembered the boarding house, a former caretaker, an early site supervisor, a school trip, an event, or something entirely different.
And the memory doesn't have to be your own. If it is a story your parents, grandparents, relatives, neighbors, or friends passed down to you, we would love to hear it.
Big stories, little stories, funny stories, everyday memories—we want them all. You never know when one person's memory might help us understand another piece of the Chateau's history.
Tell Sheriff Hank and the Site Supervisor your story.
You can share it right here in the comments, email us at [email protected], or mail it to:
Chateau de Morès State Historic Site
PO Box 106
Medora, ND 58645
History is memory. Help us keep those memories alive.
