However, the town would still have existed if not for a land dispute between the Schafer family and the Great Northern Railway.

The farm of Albert and Lulia Haven was located just to the north of Schafer; they and their four children were murdered in February 1930.

Charles Bannon, their hired hand, confessed to the killing; he became the last man in the state of North Dakota to be lynched.

The only remaining sign of the town is the old county jail, from which Bannon was dragged by the lynch mob on the night of his death.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This United States ghost town-related article is a stub.