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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CA0_the-crash-of-the-flying-sioux_Fedora-SD.html
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On June 13, 1943, three B-17 bombers of the 393rd Bomb Group — the "Flying Sioux" — left the Sioux City, Iowa, airbase on a routine training mission. The pilots of flights 446, 750 and 790 flew rigorously for three hours, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9W_verendrye-tablet-site_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Here on March 30, 1743, the Verendryes buried a lead tablet to claim this region for France. This tablet found on Feb. 16, 1913, is the first written record of the visit of white men to South Dakota.
Erected by State Historical Society and Ft. Pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9V_jerauld-county-courthouse_Wessington-Springs-SD.html
This courthouse was built in 1930 at a cost of $120,000. It had an unusual design for a courthouse at that time, being Modern American instead of Classical. The exterior is brick, trimmed with Bedford Stone. The interior has terrazzo floors, wains…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9U_translation-of-the-verendrye-plate_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Front
"In the twenty-sixth year of the reign
of Louis XV, the most illustrious Lord,
the Lord Marquis of Beauharnois being Viceroy,
1741, Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye placed this."
Back
Placed by the Chevalier Verendrye
(his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9S_stockgrowers-bank_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Incorporated in 1890, Fort Pierre was an important trade center for ranchers. Opening the Great Sioux Reservation to settlement further enhanced the community's business prospects. The Stockgrowers Bank started in a wooden building, but owners C. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9C_lewis-and-clark-first-sioux-nation-meeting_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Near this spot on September 23-28, 1804, the historic first meeting of officials of the United States of America with the great Sioux Nation took place. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Captains William Clark and Meriwether Lewis to explore…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C7S_industry_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
In the 1880s, wheat was among the major crops grown locally, and the need to process the grain locally arose. In 1877, the Cascade Mill purchased water rights and five acres of land on the east side of the Big Sioux River, north of Eighth Street, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C7R_urban-renewal_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
Urban renewal was a movement that provided for the development of aging and underutilized city neighborhoods. During the 1960s, light industry and warehouses had begun to move out of downtown Sioux Falls. The area near Seventh Street and the Big S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C7Q_jewett-bros-jewett-warehouse_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
National RegisterofHistoric Places
Constructed in 1899 (with an addition in 1909) by Jewett Bros. to house their wholesale food business, this building was placed on the National Register in 1983 as part of the Old Courthouse and Warehouse Histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C7P_flooding_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
Floods have been common along the Big Sioux River for hundreds of years. The combination of flat land, heavy snows, and spring rains can be disastrous. One of the most devastating floods occurred in 1881. The winter had been particularly harsh, be…