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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CLO_a-room-with-a-view_Waubay-SD.html
A Room with a View. . . Fire towers like this were once erected all across the country to help spot wildfires before they got out of control. This tower is 110 feet tall with 133 steps to the top-not for the faint of heart! . . Into the Tre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CLM_potholes-and-prairie_Waubay-SD.html
Potholes and Prairie. . . Waubay National Wildlife Refuge is in the Prairie Pothole Region-a region of the northern Great Plains where shallow wetlands, or potholes, are scattered about the prairie. About 10,000 years ago, glaciers scoured the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CKM_saving-men-and-beasts_Waubay-SD.html
Saving Men and Beasts. . . In 1935, when Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established, the country was in the midst of the Great Depression and a severe drought. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attacked the loss of jobs and the threat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X4T_amsden-dam-historical_Groton-SD.html
Amsden Dam built by Brown and Day Counties Works Progress Administration W.P.A. Project Number 455 Nineteen Thirty Six
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WKL_pioneering-in-dakota-historical_Roslyn-SD.html
Pioneering was never easy. In Dakota, drought, and grasshoppers, blizzard, and prairie fires were all occupational hazards. In sparse timbered areas, the settlers lived in dugouts and sod houses, enduring the hardships common to all frontiersmen. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q33_charles-h-sheldon_Pierpont-SD.html
Born at Johnson, Vermont, Sept. 12, 1840. His father died when he was 4 and at 6 he was bound out to work on a farm. He had 3 months schooling per year until 14 when, to get better educational opportunity, he got a store job for room and board and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PWZ_webster_Webster-SD.html
Founded in 1881 and named for J.P. Webster who homesteaded the townsite. Railroad supply point for Fort Sisseton (Fort Wadsworth) frontier outpost established 20 miles north in 1864. Gateway to Northeastern South Dakota Lake Region whose abundanc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PWY_sigurd-anderson_Webster-SD.html
Born at Arendal, Norway, January 22, 1904, and came to the United States when three years old, settling in Lincoln County near Canton. Taught history and speech at Webster High School, 1932 to 1935. Completed law course at University of South Dako…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PWX_wwii-plane-crash-holds-memories_Webster-SD.html
On October 25th, 1944 at 3:50 P.M. an A26-B two engine medium bomber from the Watertown Army Airbase crashed and burned in a field on the northwest quarter of section 12 of Butler township, which is two miles south and one mile west of this site. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PWW_the-fight-at-webster_Webster-SD.html
Following the 1862 Minnesota Indian Uprising where nearly 600 men, women, and children were killed, the United States Army at Fort Wadsworth recruited friendly Indians as scouts to restrict the hostile Indians from white settlements. A half-breed,…
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