Historical Markers in Crooks, South Dakota

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Historical Markers in Crooks, South Dakota

1 ► South Dakota, Minnehaha County, Crooks — Benton Lutheran Church —

Unfavorable economic conditions in Sweden in the mid-1800s led many young people to search for a better life in America. In 1873 brothers Ben and Carl Johnson, Halmstad, Sweden, became the first Swedish immigrants to homestead in Benton Township. As . . . — — Map (db m187010) HM

2 ► South Dakota, Minnehaha County, Crooks — Old Nidaros Church Replica —

The Little Nidaros Church is a replica of the Old Nidaros Church that was built in 1878 and is now located in Renner. Art Moe was inspired to build a replica as he daily drove past the Old Church on his way to work. Following retirement, Moe worked . . . — — Map (db m187027) HM

3 ► South Dakota, Minnehaha County, Crooks — Old Nidaros Replica Church —

Built and donated by Arthur O. Moe Dedicated August 15, 1993 125th Anniversary of Nidaros Organized August 12, 1868 — — Map (db m187033) HM

4 ► South Dakota, Minnehaha County, Crooks — Oyen-Person Log Cabin —

During the winter of 1880-1881, Iver Oyen made a number of ten-mile round trips between his homestead claim and a stand of timber along the Big Sioux River. After he felled, dressed, and debarked large cottonwood and maple trees, his team of horses . . . — — Map (db m187021) HM

5 ► South Dakota, Minnehaha County, Crooks — Peter Byg, Prairie Fire Victim —

Peter Byg was born near the tiny village of Halk, South Jutland, Denmark. After emigrating to America, in time he settled on a claim located 2½ miles southwest of this spot. He built a sod dugout house where he lived with his wife, Anna Raven, and . . . — — Map (db m187016) HM

6 ► South Dakota, Minnehaha County, Crooks — To God Be The Glory! —

The Nidaros Norwegian Lutheran Congregation, the first church in Minnehaha County, was organized by fifty pioneers on August 12, 1868, at the sod home of John and Kirsti Thompson on the west bank of the Big Sioux River about three miles southeast of . . . — — Map (db m187017) HM

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