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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 11, 2018
Caption: 1885 Historic Building Interpretive Plaque (also mounted on this building)
Additional Description: This is the oldest hand-hewn log commercial building in South Dakota.

The log walls you see in today’s Desperados restaurant were set in place by Camillo Von Woehrmann back in 1885. He built the original structure as a saloon and sleeping quarters, then used it from 1890 to 1910 as the publishing office of his Harney Peak Mining News.

Back in the days of the gold rush, Hill City was known as “the town with a church on each end and a mile of hell in between.” (Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok may have raised a little hell in Hill City a time or two as well.)

The original log walls survived fires in 1891 and 1902, even though each destroyed major portions of Hill City.
Submitted: July 12, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p434666
File Size: 5.521 Megabytes

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