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Blue Star Memorial Highway – Day County
Webster, SD
A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America Sponsored by South Dakota Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc....
Brown County Vietnam Veterans Memorial
To those who gave their lives.
Brown/Day County
Created west of the Sisseton Reservation Line, surveyed in 1869; from Greeley (South) and Stone (North) so named in 1873; by the...
Charles H. Sheldon
Second Governor of South Dakota 1893-1897 Born at Johnson, Vermont, Sept. 12, 1840.
Charles H. Sheldon
Pierpont, SD
Second Governor of South Dakota 1893-1897 Born at Johnson, Vermont, Sept. 12, 1840.
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Sand Lake
BF-2 (Sand Lake): 4 miles South at refuge headquarters.
Columbia
1879 Located at the mouth of Elm River, Columbia has a notable history.
Daly Corners
In 1880, John Daly and his four sons – George, John Charles (‘JC’), Edward and Austin arrived at this location from Michigan.
F.W. Sallet and the Dakota Freie Presse
Aberdeen, SD
Two German-language newspapers, Dakota Freie Press (DFP) and Neue Deutsche Presse (NDP), were located a short distance from here at 524...
Father Alexandra Ravoux
Clearing, SD
In 1845 near this spot in a Cuthead Indian village Father Alexandra Ravoux celebrated the first mass of record in South Dakota.
First Permanent White Settlers in Day County
Waubay at Rush Lake, SD
FRANCOIS RONDELLE born in Southern France in 1814 came with orphan brother to New Orleans about 1839 and in 1847 was employed American...
Pioneering in Dakota
Webster at Grenville turnoff, SD
Prairie Fires Pioneering was never easy.
Ralph Herseth
Twenty-first Governor Ralph Herseth was born on July 2, 1909 on a ranch near Houghton and grew to manhood here, graduating from Columbia...
RFD / The Battle Over Oahe Water
(Side 1) “Heritage is something left to future generations as a reminder of what is possible.
Sam Brown’s Ride
Webster, SD
APRIL 19-20, 1866 Samuel J. Brown was the son of Joseph Renshaw Brown, early day fur trader, and Susan Frenier, descendant of an Indian...
Savo Monument
This monument was created to forever make available the story of those Finnish people who early came to Brown and Dickey Counties, and...
Sigurd Anderson
19th Governor of South Dakota, 1951-1955 Resident of Webster and Day County Since 1932 Born at Arendal, Norway, January 22, 1904, and...
The Fight At Webster
Webster, SD
Following the 1862 Minnesota Indian Uprising where nearly 600 men, women, and children were killed, the United States Army at Fort...
Webster County Seat of Day County
Founded in 1881 and named for J.P. Webster who homesteaded the townsite.
WWII Plane Crash Holds Memories
Webster, SD
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...
You Are Entering Day County South Dakota
Andover, SD
Created west of the Sisseton Reservation Line, surveyed in 1869; from Greeley (South) and Stone (North) so named in 1873; by the...