The First Avenue Pedestrian Bridge over the Souris River, built in 1935,[6] connects downtown with the Torbenson neighborhood.

In 1808, Alexander Henry The Younger identified the Assiniboine living along the Souris Valley as the Little Girl band.

[11] This land did not become part of the United States until fifteen years after the Louisiana Purchase, at the London Convention.

[13] Olfa Olson, Ole Spokle, Ed Kettleson and Erik Ramstad were the first to settle in what is now Minot.

People collected buffalo bones from the surrounding area and brought them to the railroad track downtown.

[27] In the early 1920s, bank robbers, "Smiling" Johnny Reid and "Chicago Freddie"[28] were living in Minot.

[29][30] Johnny Reid was one of several aliases used by Leslie Ayer, born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia in 1895.

[31] On June 24, the Souris River surpassed previous crest heights[32] This was considered a five-hundred year flood event.

[43] Davis remained in Minot, where he decided to open a barbecue at 318 Third Street SW. High Third was known for the presence of gambling, prostitution and alcohol during Prohibition.

During Prohibition, the illegal activities associated with the High Third neighborhood helped earn Minot the nickname Little Chicago.

In a 1983 Minot Daily News article, the author called the neighborhood a "haven of brothels and bootlegging".

[44] In 1979, the North Dakota State Highway Department widened Broadway, which necessitated the demolition of numerous buildings in the neighborhood.

In the first half of the twentieth century, it was also home to the short-lived Minot College of Commerce, which was located on the second floor.

[51] The Lee Block or Evergreen Square is the building on the southwest corner of Main Street and Central Avenue.

George Vaulker commissioned the project as an office building, but only the bottom two floors were finished for many years.

As historical pictures show, the supports for the upper floors were built, but the building remained unfinished.

The Soo Line Passenger Depot is an old railroad station built in 1912 at the northern end of Main Street.

The Minot Minotauros of the North American Hockey League play their games at Maysa Arena.

The Minot SkyRockets, a former Continental Basketball Association team played their games at the Municipal Auditorium.

In the fall of 2011, students at Ramstad Middle School began attending classes at the Minot Municipal Auditorium downtown.

The neighborhood is also home to the Minot Daily News, the primary print newspaper for the northwestern part of the state.

[57] In 1929, the current Art Deco Ward County Courthouse, designed by the architectural firm Toltz, King & Day, was constructed on the same site.

Bruce Marion Van Sickle was a Minotian and United States federal judge appointed by Richard Nixon in 1971.

The University of North Dakota's School of Medicine and Health Sciences has a Northwest Campus located downtown.

The campus is host to a small number of medical students and family medicine residents at Trinity Hospital.

The library is open on weekdays and provides resources and services to medical staff at Trinity and to students.

[64] The airport is served by Allegiant, Delta, Frontier and United, which fly to Denver, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Phoenix.

The station was the second busiest in the state in 2012, over Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Rugby and Stanley.

The trolley would have begun at the old Soo Line Depot, travelled up Main Street to what is now the Burdick Expressway toward Eastwood Park and return to downtown via Central Avenue.

[74] The project provided low to moderate income housing in the downtown and improved infrastructure, which included new streets, sidewalks, water mains and traffic lights.