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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QBA_south-dakota_Ellendale-SD.html
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Created with its twin, North Dakota, 2 November 1889, its 77,047 square miles ranks 15th in size. Those square miles include; exceptional corn land in the SE, grass land in the W, wheat land in the N and Productive land all over. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QAU_watertown_Watertown-SD.html
1835 Joseph LaFramboise had trade post at Two Woods Lake (Chanopa.
1838 Nicollet & Fremont , explorers, visited SE Codington County.
1840 Rev. Stephen Return Riggs enroute, Lac Qui Parle to Ft. Pierre, traversed the area.
1856 Capt. Alfred S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QAT_birthplace-of-south-dakota-amateur-baseball_Henry-SD.html
In 1931 an economic depression spread across South Dakota and the nation. A drouth ravished crops and unemployment was widespread.
In an effort to raise the morale of the people and to give amateur baseball players an opportunity to compete, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QAS_samuel-harrison-elrod_Clark-SD.html
Samuel H. Elrod was born near Coatesville, Indiana, May 1, 1856. Having worked his way through Asbury College, now Depauw University, graduating in 1882, he passed the Indiana Bar Examinations and headed for Dakota Territory. Arriving in Watertown…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q36_marshall-county-south-dakota_Sisseton-SD.html
The last county organized east of the Missouri, on May 2, 1885; it had been in Sheyenne County 1862; a gigantic Hanson 1870; coincident with Stone 1873; the north half of Day 1879 and was created by the 1885 Legislature and named for Governor Will…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q35_fort-wadsworth-1864_Lake-City-SD.html
Major John Clowney, 30th Wisconsin Infantry with Cos. B. E. G. and K, Captains Burton, Devlin, Swain & Klatt, started the fort on 1 August 1864, pursuant to orders of General John Pope, Department Commander. They were mostly from the north woods a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q34_fort-sisseton_Eden-SD.html
Rebuilt by
State of
South Dakota
and
Works Progress
Administration
WPA Project Number 3384
Nineteen Thirty Nine
Centennial Time Capsule
In Cement Block, beneath this Marker
Placed July 35, 1984 - To be opened at
Bicentennial Obse…
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/HM1Q2K_frederick-manfreds-siouxland_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
This spot is near the center of an area called "Siouxland," so named by writer Frederick F. Manfred (1912-1994). Manfred established a distinct identity for this region, the drainage basin of the Big Sioux River. It includes parts of Iow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q0Z_two-companions_Sisseton-SD.html
The Dakota winter of 1937 stretched out too long for farm boys Charles Almos and Clayton Week. They lived with their parents on the Coteau des Prairies eight and ten miles west of Sisseton. During their high school years, the boys shared room and …