Yankton
Brave Bear Hung Here
Mato Ohi Tike May 15th 1875, Brave Bear treacherously killed Joseph Johnson, a post employee on Okobojo Creek, 25 miles east of Ft. Sully.
Charles Francois Picotte
Born at Ft. Tecumseh (Pierre), the son of Honore Picotte, an American Fur Co. factor and Eagle Woman, he was educated at St. Louis.
Christ Church
Yankton, SD
Mother Episcopal Church Of The Daktotas Founded In 1861 By The Rev. Melancthon Hoyt, D.D., LL.
Custer Camp Site May 6-7 1873
Yankton, SD
Custer with 7th Cavalry, 800 men, 700 horses, 202 mules and families of officers and enlisted men left Yankton early that day and made...
Custer’s 7th Cavalry Campsite April 13 to May 6, 1873
Yankton, SD
Custer with 800 troops, 700 horses, 202 mules plus enlisted men’s and officers’ families arrived on Dakota Southern.
First Building at Yankton Site May 1858
C.J. Holman, for a Sioux City group, rivals of Frost, Todd & Co.’s Upper Missouri Land Company came in March 1858, was run off by...
First Dakota National Bank of Yankton
Yankton, SD
Dakota Territories first bank was that of Mark M. Parmer started at Yankton in September, 1869 which became the private banking...
First Territorial Capital
Yankton, SD
1861-1883 Dakota Territory, extending N to Canada and W to the summit of the Rockies, a fourth larger than Texas, was created March 2, 1861.
Frost Todd & Co . Post
Yankton, SD
1859 This house, the oldest in Yankton, was built east of Walnut near the river and cut of logs and stood there until 1867 at least.
Frost, Todd & Co. Trade Post
Yankton, SD
The Trading firm of Frost, Todd & Company had several posts along the Missouri.
Jack Mc Call Burial Site
Jack McCall was hung for murder of ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok on March 1st 1877 at corner of State Hospital Grounds on US 81.
John Blair Smith Todd Office
Yankton on Broadway between, SD
J.B.S. Todd was Captain USA when he came in to Dakota in 1855 with Harney Expedition.
North Wall Yankton Stockade
Yankton, SD
This 6 foot of sod and earth with a ditch in front was located about 150 foot South of this marker.
Pine Street Bridge
In February 1912, the Yankton City Council approved city engineer Hugh C. Liebe’s plan for a new concrete arch bridge at Pine Street over...
Robert Mc Clellan Fur Post 1805-1806
Gayville, SD
In 1806 the mouth of the James River was about one-half mile South.
South Wall Yankton Stockade
Yankton, SD
The South wall was built of cedar posts close together and was about 200 feet south of here with the only gate in its center on Broadway.
Stanage James River Ferry
3/4 Mile James River, named for Jacques D’Englis, had two ferries, the lower established by John Stanage, a soldier, who had been at Ft....
Vangen Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1869“Following earlier Missionary work, this church began in Dakota Territory among Scandinavian
Lutherans as early as 1861, and was organized October 8, 1864 with Reverand Emil Christenson as minister.
West Wall Yankton Stockade
Yankton, SD
West Wall, Yankton Stockade Indian war of Outbreak, August 1862 threatened to spread into Dakota and a ‘strong point’ for all settlers...
William H. Mc Master
Yankton, SD
William H. McMaster: U.S. Senator and 10th Governor of South Dakota William McMaster (1877-1968) was a progressive Republican banker and...
Yankton
Douglas Avenue in Yankton, SD
Mother City of the Dakotas Frost, Todd & Company, under the guise and license of trade stores along the Missouri and at the Struck By the...
Yankton College
Yankton at, SD
Oldest Institution of Higher Learning in the Dakotas Joseph Ward, a graduate of Brown University and Andover Seminary came to Yancton,...