How Come They Called it Presho

How Come They Called it Presho (HM24VT)

Location: Presho, SD 57568 Lyman County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 54.1', W 100° 3.382'

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Wal partner, in 1862 when the Civil War was being fit and Dakota Territory took in everything South of Canada to the Rocky Mountains, the legislature gave a ferry license across the Old Muddy down at Yankton to J.S. Presho. Come 1872 they were casting round for a name to call a great big new country they were carving out of the Great Sioux Reservation. Someone said Presho and that was it. It was 1889 til the Guvment started to small down that big reservation and let white folks in. The whites came on filtering in and hankering for mail. Chris Hellekson allowed he'd try postmastering and on June 30, 1891 they gave him Presho P.O. and we've been growing by jerks and slow motion since, a peddling cattle and shipping hay. Why in 1915 we shipped out mor'n 20 train loads of hay and that was a record, son. Only one other point ever shipped that much hay in one year. That same legislature that set up Presho started a little dinky county down on the river and called it Lyman for Major W.P. Lyman, one of Presho's ferry customers. You know what! That little dinky Lyman County just plum swallowed up that big Presho. And them's all facts, folks.
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HM NumberHM24VT
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Year Placed1955
Placed ByBreshokiva Club and State Highway Commission
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Monday, January 22nd, 2018 at 10:04am PST -08:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)14T E 415166 N 4861493
Decimal Degrees43.90166667, -100.05636667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 54.1', W 100° 3.382'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 54' 6.0000000000001" N, 100° 3' 22.92" W
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Area Code(s)605
Closest Postal AddressAt or near SD-248, Presho SD 57568, US
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