Minnehaha
1908 Palisades Bridge
Garretson SD, SD
In 1908 the Western Bridge and Construction Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, built this Pratt Through-Truss Bridge.
All Saints Historic District From Glory to Glory
All Saints School was founded in 1884 by Bishop William Hobart Hare as an Episcopalian boarding school for daughters of missionary...
An Institution of Organized Kindness
In June of 1894, inspired by tales of marvelous progress in medicine at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, a small group of Lutheran...
Catlin Indian Village
Crooks, SD
No one knows when the first people came to live on the land that now comprises Minnehaha County, but native Woodland and Oneota peoples...
Early Firefighting in Sioux Falls
A frontier town such as Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, built almost entirely of wood and surrounded by highly flammable prairie grass...
Eliza Tupper Wilkes
Arriving in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory in 1877, Eliza Tupper Wilkes quickly became one of the community leaders of the prairie boom town.
Eminija, Minnesota Territory
Brandon, SD
In May of 1857, land speculators from the Dakota Land Company, of St. Paul, Minnesota Territory, surveyed and located the town site of...
Government Building
In 1891, the United States Government purchased the southeast corner lot on Phillips Avenue and 12th Street for $8,000 for the...
In Memory of Makana Na Ota E ‘En (Among Little Trees)
Sioux Falls, SD
Enraged over the broken promises of the white man, the Santee Sioux, led by Chief Little Crow, launched the ‘War of the Outbreak’ – or...
Incident at Fort Sod
In the fall of 1856, speculators from the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, claimed a town site at the Falls of the Big Sioux River.
Iverson Crossing Bridge
Ole B. Iverson, his father Iver, brother Peter and brother-in-law Andy had no established roads to follow when they came to Dakota...
Joe Foss: American Hero and Governor of South Dakota
Crooks, SD
Joe Foss was born in Sioux Falls on April 17, 1915.
John Thompson Pioneer
John Thompson arrived in America in 1854.
Lindbergh Landing/Renner Field
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was the first to fly non-stop from New York to Paris.
Memorial to the Pioneers of Minnehaha County
Intersection, SD
1856-1889 Erected by the Minnehaha County Historical Society 1949.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
In late 1873, the young frontier town of Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, population 150, established its first cemetery organization,...
Nils A Boe: 23rd Governor of South Dakota
Sioux Falls at Washington Pavilion, SD
Nils A. Boe was born on September 10, 1913 in Baltic.
Pumpkin Center
On plains where Native Americans once hunted vast herds of buffalo, a country general store called Wellington Corner sprang up at this...
Saint Olaf Roller Mill and Power Dam
In 1881 Frank and Justin Pettigrew began construction of the power dam and flour mill at this site where portions of the foundation remain.
Sherman Park Indian Burial Mounds
In these mounds were buried the physical remains of Indians who lived in eastern South Dakota 1600 years ago.
Soo Skyways Airport
Following the advent of powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, the dawning air age slowly arrived in Sioux Falls.
The “Squatter” Government at Sioux Falls City
Phillips Ave, SD
Originally part of Minnesota Territory, Sioux Falls City was founded during a time of widespread townsite speculation on the frontier.
The 1900 Campaign Whistlestop by Theodore Roosevelt
On September 11, 1900, Theodore Roosevelt spoke from a platform at this intersection on Ninth Street and Minnesota Avenue.
The Amidon Affair
Near this spot, on August 25, 1862, Judge Joseph B. Amidon and his son William were killed by Indians while making hay on their claim...
The City of Brandon
For hundreds of years, the land on which Brandon is situated was the home and hunting grounds of Native Americans.
The City of East Sioux Falls
From 1887 to about 1913, this area, bordering the Big Sioux River, was the thriving community of East Sioux Falls.
The Dubuque House
The Dubuque House, Sioux Falls first hotel, was built about 350 yards due west of this spot by Wilmot W. Brookings and members of the...
The Eminija Mounds
Brandon, SD
The Eminija Mounds, the largest and most numerous burial mound group in South Dakota, were built by Native Americans of the Late Woodland...
The Hanging of An Innocent Man
Early day justice Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory, overlooked innocence when gallows were erected near this site for the hanging of...
The Sioux Quartzite
Sioux Falls, SD
The Sioux Quartzite, deposited more than a billion years ago, is among the oldest rock exposed in South Dakota.
The Town of Valley Springs
Valley Springs, SD
Adeline Jenney, Second Poet Laureate of South Dakota and long time Valley Springs resident, wrote ‘They Were Able’ to honor the memory of...
The Village of Renner
Crooks, SD
Leonard Renner, a German immigrant and a Union Army Civil War veteran, came to Dakota Territory in 1878.
Town of Hartford
Hartford, SD
In 1878 when Hartford was first settled, it was called Oaksville after pioneer I.E. Oaks1.
Town of Rowena Dakota Territory
On July 27, 1888, Thomas Ryan of Dubuque, Iowa, purchased land for the Rowena townsite in the SE¼, Section 26, Split Rock Township from...
Tri-State Marker
Crooks, SD
1859 Set at the junction of the states Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota Territory by the federal land office survey on Minnesota’s western...
U.S. Senator R.F. Pettigrew (1848-1926)
Richard Franklin Pettigrew was 20 years old in the spring of 1869 when he first came to Dakota Territory from Wisconsin as a member of a...
Valley Springs Rest Area
Indians and frontier legends mix with the space age as you enter South Dakota here.
West Sioux Falls
In March 1889, several months before South Dakota achieved statehood, Evan B. Meredith, first president of the University of Sioux Falls,...