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1940 DAR Penny Pines Forest
In 1940, fourteen South Dakota chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) contributed funds for the planting of 18,000...
Black Hills Tragedy
This was Brownsville; half a mile E, down Elk Creek in 1883, was the Hood & Scott lumber Mill near rails end at Allerton.
Civilian Conservation Corps – Roubaix
Lead, SD
Camp F-6 (Roubaix): 100 yards N of Lake Roubaix entrance; W of road.
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp - Estes
Lead, SD
Camp F-3 (Este): Located 1/2 mile west astride Estes Creek.
Custer Trail Crossing 1874
Deadwood on, SD
General George A. Custer, in his famous Expedition into the Black Hills in 1874, had a command of 10 troops of cavalry, two companies of...
First Deadwood Gold Discovery
Near this point in 1875 occurred the first of two initial gold discoveries in the Deadwood area.
Preacher Smith of Deadwood Gulch
Deadwood, SD
’Deadwood’s Sky Pilot,’ Henry Weston Smith, was born in Ellington, Connecticut, January 10, 1828.
Second Deadwood Gold Discovery
Near this point in 1875 occurred the second of two initial gold discoveries in the Deadwood area.
Steven Berry Memorial Roadside Park
You are standing on the southeast edge of Ruby Basin, a gold mining area which is part of the Bald Mountain Mining District.
The Hearst Highway
Dedicated to the memory of GEORGE HEARST (1820-1891) United States Senator, mining engineer, sportsman, speculator.
This Mass Grave
This mass grave contains the bodies of Albert Tunnicliff, Raisha C. Rice, James Chalmers, Samuel Haines, Fred D. Peters, Thomas Finless,...
United States Army Air Forces 93rd College Training Detachment
The Student Union, SD
From March 1943 to May 1944 Black Hills Teachers College (now Black Hills State University) was home to the U.S. Army Air Forces 93rd...
Whitewood’s Cattle Industry
RR track on Laurel Street in Whitewood, SD
Cattle began arriving in the 1860s when the cattle drives came up from the south bringing large herds of long horned cattle, and in the...
Whitewood’s Railroad History
Whitewood, SD
In November of 1887, the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad pulled into Whitewood.