Verendrye (also Falson)[1] is a ghost town in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. The Verendrye Electric Cooperative was established here in 1939 but relocated to Velva within a couple years. By 2007, the remnants of the town amounted to two or three house foundations and the backless facade of an old two-story schoolhouse. Most of the town site has been taken over by a grain farmer's machine sheds.
The town was named after the earliest known European to tour the North Dakota prairies, a son of the French-Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. A monument to the later North West Company fur trader and explorer, David Thompson, erected by the Great Northern Railway in the 1920s, remains on a hilltop overlooking the former townsite.
The population of Verendrye in the 1930 United States Census was 130.[2] In 2007, it appears to be zero.[3]
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