Fort Vermillion
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On May 8, 1833, the American Fur Co. steamer Yellowstone stopped on the river bank to the south and put Francois LeRoi ashore to set up a fur post which remained as such until 1851. In 1845, James Emmett led a party of 200 Mormons west from Nauvoo, Illinois and they wintered 1845-46 at Fort Vermillion.
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State University of South Dakota
USD campus, SD
The first territorial legislature of Dakota, on April 21, 1862, located at the University of Dakota at Vermillion.
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Meckling & Lincoln
Named for a grading contractor on the Dakota Southern Railway, built in 1872.