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Archie M. Gubbrud
Alcester, SD
Twenty-second Governor of South Dakota Archie M. Gubbrud was born December 31, 1910, the eldest son of Marius T. Gubbrud and Ella...
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Alcester
Camp SCS-3 (DPE-211 in 1934): located in city park of NE Alcester.
Elk Point
Lewis & Clark camped here and said much ‘elk sign’ on August 22, 1804 and held first election in northwest that evening.
First Election in Northwestern United States
Lewis & Clark reached a point in what is now Sioux City on August 20, 1804 near the mouth of Floyd River.
First Flour Mill In Dakota
Richland, SD
On Sioux 5 miles NE Dakota’s first flour mill was established in 1867, after the Legislature gave them a water right on the Big Sioux...
First Homestead In Dakota
Richland, SD
3 1/2 Miles The 1862 Homestead law bet 160 acres against the homesteaders ability to stay 5 years.
Fort Brule
Richland, SD
This grant block erected by the Old Settlers Association of Union County, South Dakota, marks the site of Fort Brule.
Fourteen Mile House
Jefferson, SD
Just 14 miles from Sioux City on the Military Road from that place to Ft. Randall, this house was built of logs by Francis Reandeau about...
Giants in the Earth Country
Elk Point, SD
Ole Edvart Rolvaag’s First Home in America, 1896-1898 “When the famous Norwegian-American novelist Rolvaag (1876-1931) came to America,...
Grasshopper Cross
Jefferson, SD
2.3 Miles The first cross erected that day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholics and Protestants on an...
Homestead Rest Area
Richland, SD
The rich farm country of southeast South Dakota lies in the triangle formed at the Missouri River to the west and the Big Sioux River...
Jefferson
Jefferson, SD
Got its name when Edward M. Walters was postmaster on September 22, 1873.
Pacquette Ferry
Sioux City, SD
First Ferry in Dakota On December 18, 1855, Capt. P.T. Turnley issued a license to Paul Pacquette to run a ferry on the Big Sioux River...
Richland Methodist Episcopal Church
Richland, SD
1/4 Mile Rev. S.W. Ingham, a travelling Missionary, in 1861 baptized Minnesota Watson, daughter of Thomas and Adeline Watson, who with...
Sioux Point
Sioux Point is the cud de sac that Lewis & Clark noted on August 21, 1804, between the Big Sioux and the Missouri Rivers and south of old...
St. Paul Lutheran Church
One and One-Fourth Miles Stately church edifices frequently have humble beginnings and so with St. Paul Lutheran Church, one of South...
St. Peter’s Church Jefferson
The vicinity of Jefferson, even before the organization of Dakota Territory in 1861, was a French-Canadian community and Catholic...
William J. Bulow Twelfth Governor of South Dakota
Beresford, SD
William J. Bulow was born in 1869 in Claremont County, Ohio.