Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Wimbledon, ND

Wimbledon is a city in Barnes County, North Dakota, with a population of 178 in the 2020 census.

Wimbledon was founded in 1892 and named for Wimbledon, London, which featured in the ancestry of John Henry Gibson, the homesteader whose land the town was built on.

Wimbledon was platted in late 1892 after Gibson offered land to the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, the Soo Line, and a post office was established in 1893.

Wimbledon is a railroad town whose original street grid was aligned to the railroad rather than the Public Land Survey System, with streets named Railway, Center, and Out instead of numbered.

Wimbledon was incorporated as a village in 1899 and became a city in 1950, and it counted 94 households in the 2010 census.

Wimbledon had eight grain elevators by 1908 and reached its peak population of 571 in the 1910 census.

The Midland Continental Railroad reached Wimbledon in October 1913, making it in effect a four-railroad town, since it also served as a terminal road for the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroads.

Wimbledon's Midland Continental station was moved downtown on rollers in 1920, and the restored depot reopened in 2012 as the Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum, which also features the life of singer Peggy Lee, who was raised in Wimbledon.

Victory Park, northeast of town, became a horse racing venue in 1906 when the Wimbledon Fair and Racing Association built a half-mile track with a grandstand, and it is now the town recreation ground.

St. Boniface Catholic Church in Wimbledon began as a wooden church built in 1886 at Durupt, a now-vanished settlement five miles south, which was jacked up, put on rollers, and dragged by horse power to Wimbledon in 1895; it burned in 1907 and was rebuilt in brick in 1908.