 view gallery |   Department of Veterans Affairs
in South Dakota Historical Markers After an influenza outbreak struck the Sioux Falls Army Air Force Base during WWII, the War Dept. purchase the vacant buildings of the Columbus College campus to use for a hospital. posted by:  MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 3/11/2007 last visited: 10/29/2011 |
 view gallery | AAUW Sioux Falls Branch in South Dakota Historical Markers On chilly January l4, l882, a total of 65 women attended a meeting held at Chauncy Hall in Boston to organize "an association of women college graduates with headquarters in Boston. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 3/11/2007 last visited: 11/9/2010 |
 view gallery | Fisher Grove ~ 1/2 Mi. North in South Dakota Historical Markers Before white settlers came, this area was inhabited by the Yankton tribe of the Sioux nation and numerous reminders of these people can still be seen in the burial mounds, storage cellars and artifacts that have been found. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/23/2007 last visited: 2/18/2007 |
 view gallery | Samuel Harrison Elrod, Fifth Governor of SD in South Dakota Historical Markers To him Clark was the best town, Clark County the best county and SD the best state. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/23/2007 last visited: 8/6/2007 |
 view gallery | Old Town Clock in South Dakota Historical Markers This tower was constructed in 1987 to house the old town clock. The city purchased the clock from Dakota Loan and Trust Co. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/23/2007 last visited: 10/14/2011 |
 view gallery | Council Rock ~ Indian Capitol of the Dakota's in South Dakota Historical Markers The Sioux tribes established near here, Council Rock as a central meeting place for all the bands. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/22/2007 last visited: 8/8/2007 |
 view gallery | Abbie Garner in South Dakota Historical Markers About 1 mile east of this spot, Abbie Gardner was delivered to her rescuers on May 30, 1857. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/21/2007 last visited: 2/19/2007 |
 view gallery | Brookings in South Dakota Historical Markers The county seat of Brookings County was platted October 3-4 1879 when the Northwestern Railroad reached here. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/20/2007 last visited: 2/19/2007 |
 view gallery | Hillcrest Park in South Dakota Historical Markers Hillcrest Park is the original tree claim of Marthin Christianson a native of Gjovik Norway who emigrated in 1850 with a large colony, only 12 of whom survived a cholera scourge. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/20/2007 last visited: 2/19/2007 |
 view gallery | Legend of Punished Woman's Lake in South Dakota Historical Markers Long ago, a band of Sioux camped by a small lake. Each Sioux maiden dreamed of the brave who would bring gifts. Her father would accept the gifts and she would become the brave's wife. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/20/2007 last visited: 6/7/2009 |
 view gallery | You are entering Roberts County South Dakota 3 in South Dakota Historical Markers Long the home of Sisseton, Wahpeton and Cuthead Yanktonaise Sioux, it became part of Deuel and Cheyenne Counties in 1862. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/20/2007 last visited: 7/23/2011 |
 view gallery | Charles H. Sheldon (1893 – 1897) 2nd Governor of SD in South Dakota Historical Markers Charles H. Sheldon was born in Lamoille County, Vermont, the third of four children of Gresham and Mary (Brown) Sheldon. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/20/2007 last visited: 6/3/2010 |
 view gallery | Peter Norbeck 1870 - 1936 in South Dakota Historical Markers Peter Norbeck Overlook, Historic Marker, and Wildlife Preserve on the Custer to Keystone National Byway, US Hwy 16A aka Iron Mountain Road, near Mt. Rushmore National Monument in the Black Hills of SD posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 2/14/2007 last visited: 5/27/2009 |
 view gallery | Salem Rest Area in South Dakota Historical Markers SD's rich western heritage has been remembered along the interstate, as safety rest areas and tourist information centers. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/12/2007 last visited: 7/30/2012 |
 view gallery | Hartman 1899 - 1916 in South Dakota Historical Markers Townsite of Hartman was homesteaded in 1878 by John Hartmann Sr. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/12/2007 last visited: 6/4/2012 |
 view gallery | Badus - Pioneer Swiss Colony in South Dakota Historical Markers In 1877 a group of Swiss Chose a point on the shore of Lake Badus for a colony. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/12/2007 last visited: 5/10/2009 |
 view gallery | Badus - Original Site in South Dakota Historical Markers Lake County in South Dakota. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/12/2007 last visited: 5/10/2009 |
 view gallery | You are about to enter Lake County 2 in South Dakota Historical Markers So named because of is beautiful lakes. It had been the realm of the Dacotah Sioux Indians with few white intruders until ceded by the Yankton tribe in 1858. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 2/12/2007 last visited: 2/12/2007 |
 view gallery | Fish Car Era 1873 ~ 1947 in South Dakota Historical Markers Spearfish, SD fish hatchery and museum has a replica of a railroad fish car which were used to carry over 72 billion fish across more than 2 million miles of track. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 2/5/2007 last visited: 7/24/2013 |
 view gallery | Civilian Conservation Corps Camp BR-2 near Belle Fourche, SD in South Dakota Historical Markers CCC Camp near Orman Dam between Newell and Belle Fourche, SD that was established as a drought-relief camp. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 2/5/2007 last visited: 3/1/2007 |
 view gallery | Flandreau Indian Christian Community in South Dakota Historical Markers This is the oldest continously used church in South Dakota. Started in 1870 and this building built in 1873. posted by: Wakpa location: South Dakota date approved: 1/27/2007 last visited: 4/9/2007 |
 view gallery | Split Rock Creek Tragedy in South Dakota Historical Markers A gone-bad attempt to ford Split Rock Creek resulted in four deaths in July 1879, and was one of the most distressing calamities to occur in Minnehaha County during Dakota Territorial times. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 1/16/2007 last visited: 1/14/2012 |
 view gallery | First Concrete State Highway in South Dakota Historical Markers This SD Historic Civil Engineering Landmark was the first concrete State Highway constructed in SD 1919~1924 posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 1/16/2007 last visited: 5/7/2012 |
 view gallery | Taopi in South Dakota Historical Markers Taopi was a Christian chief of the Farmer band of Santee Sioux honored here for his loyalty during the Minnesota Uprising of 1862. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 1/13/2007 last visited: 11/23/2011 |
 view gallery | Willow Creek Lutheran Church in South Dakota Historical Markers Norwegian pioneers homesteaded in this area in the early 1870s too far from the Norwegian Churches in northwest Minnehaha County, so the first services conducted by an ordained minister was held in the Willow Creek area private home in July, 1874. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 1/13/2007 last visited: 7/10/2012 |
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