It is listed as the 39th state because of the alphabet. President Harrison signed the documents in the blind so that history would never know which of the Dakota's was the senior state.
North Dakota
North Dakota is the Peace Garden State.
The official nickname of North Dakota, as adopted by the North Dakota State Legislature in 1957, is the Peace Garden State. The nick name was chosen because the International Peace Garden is located on the border of North Dakota with Canada.
North Dakota
The International Peace Garden.
North Dakota is known as the Peace Garden State because the International Peace Garden is located on the border of North Dakota, USA and Manitoba, Canada.
North Dakota is not named the Peace Golden State. North Dakota's official nickname is the "Peace Garden State" because the International Peace Garden is partially located in the US in North Dakota and partially in the province of Manitoba, Canada.
North Dakota is the Peace Garden State.
It is the state of North Dakota .
The official nickname for North Dakota is The Peace Garden State.
North Dakota's official state nickname, "The Peace Garden State", means that the International Peace Garden straddles the border between North Dakota in the US and Manitoba in Canada.
North Dakota's nick name is the Peace Garden State because the International Peace Garden is located on the border between North Dakota, US and Manitoba, Canada. The North Dakota Motor Vehicle Department decided to put the words "Peace Garden State" on the license plates in 1956. The name was so popular that the North Dakota state legislature formally adopted it as the state nick name in 1957.