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19 historical markers in South Dakota

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Mystic

Camp F-1 Mystic: Located at this spot Companies: 760 - - 6/29/33-10/20/34 2763 - - 10/30/35-1/20/36 2753 - - 10/20/34-10/30/35 1790 - -...

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Oreville

Hill City, SD

Camp F-16 Oreville: Located 1/4 mile SW on Creek Companies: 766 - - 10/28/33-4/34 2760 - - 10/27/35-Spring 37 2751 - - 10/21/34-10/21/35...

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Pactola

Camp F-4: Pactola Campsite inundated by Lake Pactola Companies: 1789 - - 6/8/33-10/35 2748 - - 5/25/36-1940 The Civilian Conservation...

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Sheridan

US, SD

Camp F-24: Sheridan: Located at the site of the large campground Companies: 793 - - 6/13/39-May 42 2748 - - 6/24/40-Fall 40 Detachments...

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Tigerville

Camp F-15 Tigerville: Located 1/4 mile S of here.

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Wall

Wall, SD

Camps NP-2: 8 miles S of Wall on SD 240, 13 miles W (1 mi W of Sage Creek) S of road and NP-3: ¾ mile S of Cedar Pass Visitor Center.

Gutzon Borglum

Keystone, SD

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglym Born March 25, 1867 – Died March 6, 1941 His birthplace was Idaho.

Hill City

First laid out as a gold camp in February 1876 by Thomas Harvey, John Miller and Hugh McCullough, the rich strikes in the Northern Hills...

Ogallalla Fur Post

Located at the mouth of Rapid Creek, which in 1830 flowed south into the Cheyenne not far from this point; it was one of John Jacob...

Pineau, Pino, Poeno Springs

Quinn on county road, SD

Named for Pineau, the Yancton, an American Fur Company engage, first noted geographically in 1830, it was on the Ft. Tecumseh (Pierre),...

Rapid City Founders Camp Site

Near a perpendicular sandstone cliff a short distance North of here and across Rapid Creek (a marker denotes the site) was the first camp...

Rockerville

Gold is where you find it and in 1876 William Keeler, supervising a batch of burros, enroute from Sheridan (now in the bottom of a big...

Sheridan 1875-1942

Sheridan, located ½ mile NE, now 30 feet under water, was named for General Philip Sheridan and founded in 1875 on Cheyenne-Deadwood...

South Fork – Cheyenne River

Once a Great River The Cheyenne is, after the Yellowstone, the largest tributary of the Upper Missouri.

The Big Badlands

One hundred million years ago this region was under a vast inland sea and 40 million years later the uplift of the Rocky Mountains and...

The Father of Mount Rushmore

Doane Robinson (1856-1946) was the South Dakota state historian from 1901 to 1926.

Tigerville