Pollock, South Dakota Settlers / National Bicentennial Wagon Train

Pollock, South Dakota Settlers, also, National Bicentennial Wagon Train. . , Pollock, South Dakota Settlers , The first settlers came to this area , about 1880. LaGrace, 9 miles , southwest, was the first town and , the County seat until 1888, when , It gradually disappeared. , The town of Pollock was founded , In 1901 at the end of the , Soo Line Railroad, named after , R.Y. Pollock, an early settler, , Community leader and lay preacher. , The town was to be flooded , by the Oahe Reservoir , and in 1955 ground was broken , for the present town and its two , churches, Presbyterian and Lutheran. , The old town site, one mile north , of this point, is now covered by , Lake Pocasse., National Bicentennial Wagon Train , The South Dakota , covered wagon in the , National Bicentennial , Wagon train to , Valley Forge, Pa., , made its official start , in Pollock on , October 7, 1975, , accompanied by the , North Dakota wagon , and a , Pennsylvania wagon.