Devils Lake Original Townsite Was Creelsburgh

Devils Lake Original Townsite Was Creelsburgh

Lieutenant Heber M. Creel a graduate of West Point resigned from the Army and settled or more correctly, squatted on the southeast quarter of Section 34 Township 154 Range 64. He surveyed a townsite and called it Creelsburgh. On November 15, 1882, a post office was established at Creelsburgh. This post office was changed to Creel City on February 28, 1883, and to Devils Lake on January 14, 1884.It really had been Devils Lake since the latter par…