• From Gladstone ramp exit 72 - This exits on to the Enchanted Highway which is paved - go 23 miles south on the Enchanted Highway.  (50mph)
• Turn right (west) on 59 Street SW.  This is a gravel road and has 2 metal grain bins at the turn at the highway.
• Go 8 miles west.
• Turn left (south) on Havelock Road (110 Ave SW), this is a Gravel road.
• Go south 5 miles.  The road curves to the west.
• Our turn off is the first road on the right (North) side of the road after the curve with 2 black mail boxes and a large white sign.  Continue West & North on our driveway about 1 mile.

We have alot of trees around the farmstead with several grain bins visible from the road.

* Red lines are gravel roads.

• Take Interstate Exit 61 - Go south on highway 22 to New England
• From New England highway 22 intersection of highway 21 - continue on highway 22 - 3 miles south.
• Turn left (east) onto gravel at 64 St SW (Havelock Road)
• Follow 5 & 1/2 miles east (approximately).  Road curves to the south.
• Take first road to the left (east) toward an old coal mine spoil pile on south side of road
• Go 1 & 1/4 miles on this road.  It goes east, north and then east and crosses a cement bridge over the Cannonball River.
• Turn left at 2 black mail boxes and a large white sign.  Continue West & North on our driveway about 1 mile.  We are the only place north of the bridge.

The "Havelock Setters" name is derived from the name of the little town of Havelock, just 11/4 miles to the southwest of us.  Havelock is located in Hettinger County.  Havelock was established as a Milwaukee Road RR townsite.  It is located in SE1/4 Sec. 28-135-96, Havelock Township, ten miles SE of New England, ND and was founded in 1909 as COAL CITY.  The post office was established in 1910 with Fred R. Hunter as Postmaster.  Some say that the name was changed to Havelock (1910??) after an English stockholder of the railroad,  while others say it was named after Havelock, Nebraska, both of which trace back to Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), A British military hero.  Havelock's elevation is 2566, and the village which never incorporated reported a population of 175 in 1920, but declined to 15 in 1960.  Charles  L. Rafferty (1873-1962) ran a grocery store for many years and was also the Post Master from 1934 until the post office closed January 31, 1948.  There are currently 2 residents of Havelock, whom also happen to carry the surname of Rafferty.  There was a Havelock weekly newspaper between the years 1916 and 1920.  At one time there were two banks, a hotel, grocery store, livery, lumberyard, 3 grain elevators, seven coal mines in the area, a mine tipple, two garages/repair shops, a grade school (which Kerry was the last student to graduate from the 8th grade when the school closed in 1965), a general store, train station/railroad depot and a grain elevator.  The railroad was still running a weekly train from New England to McLaughlin South Dakota in the late 70's.  We think the last train ran in 1982.  It was fun to hear the lonely whistle once a week as it approached the Havelock railroad crossing.  The railroad tracks were taken out around 1985 and the land sold to the adjacent landowners in 2005.  There is still evidence of the little town of Havelock with the current two residents home, the school house is still standing and foundations of a few buildings are still visible. 

The gravel road connecting to our driveway has been called Havelock Road for many years.  When the 911 addresses were assigned, the name of the road was changed without any input for what any of the residents wished it's name to be.  Bummer....  The area residents still call the road "Havelock Road", although it is officially now 111th Ave SW & 110th Ave SW (North South directions) and 64 St SW (East West direction).

The January 2008 issue of the National Geographic magazine page 148, mentions Havelock, North Dakota specifically as one of the deserted towns of the emptied prairie.  The author of the article "The Emptied Prairie" is Charles Bowden.  Some people of North Dakota didn't especially like the article and the Governor, John Hoeven wrote a rebuttal and there was a short news blurb after the comment on TV about saluting the people of North Dakota. 

On June 13 or 14, 2008 in a news coverage on TV Charles Bowden spoke with some North Dakotans and he had a little to say about the response North Dakotans had to his article.  He said that the article that he wrote was about the past of North Dakota and what happened to the prairies after the people left, the article was not about what a progressive state North Dakota is.  He went on to say that a grade school student from Arkansas could read the article and understand what it said, and that he never met our Governor but wondered about his reading abilities.  

Southwest North Dakota does have wide open prairies with deserted farmsteads and abandoned farm schools dotting the landscape. It also has lots of wildlife on the prairies and we love it especially during the spring, summer and fall seasons.  Winters are another story.  They can be open and mild, which is great, or they can be bitterly cold with raging winds and snowstorms.  The worst winter weather usually occurs in January and February in our part of the state.  Southwest North Dakota is much milder than the rest of the state.  We call it "The Banana belt of North Dakota". 

The information above is as accurate as the people who have told it could remember.......