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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Sioux Falls is the county seat for Minnehaha County
Adjacent to Minnehaha County, South Dakota
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This landmark structure was designed by Wallace Dow and built by Andrew C. Phillips in 1891-1892. Phillips, a lawyer and diplomat for the U.S. government, came to Sioux Falls in 1878 and invested in banking and real estate. This brick building with . . . — — Map (db m192230) HM
The Minnehaha County Courthouse was built between 1889-1890. Its architect, Wallace Dow, designed the building in the massive Richardsonian-Romanesque style, using rough quartzite stones to impress upon the public the law's majesty and power. At the . . . — — Map (db m194955) HM
Thomas L. Fawick was born in Sioux Falls and attended school here through the fourth grade. His genius was soon revealed. He became an inventor, and in 1906, at the age of 17, Fawick built a rudimentary two-cylinder auto, the Silent Sioux.
Two . . . — — Map (db m192013) HM
At least three bridges have been built to allow passage over the Big Sioux River in this location, ranging from a single span steel truss structure to a three-span reinforced concrete arch bridge.
By the numbers
Total Bridge Length: . . . — — Map (db m195036) HM
Urban renewal was a movement that provided for the development of aging and underutilized city neighborhoods. During the 1960s, light industry and warehouses had begun to move out of downtown Sioux Falls. The area near Seventh Street and the Big . . . — — Map (db m124496) HM
For most of the 119 years between 1873 and 1992, a majority of Sioux Falls children attended one of three successive public schools erected on this site. The first, an unnamed small wood-frame elementary school, was replaced five years later by . . . — — Map (db m124194) HM
This structure, designed by Wallace Dow, was built in 1890 by Warner E. Willey and his son-in-law, Roy Williams. As owners of the Merchant Hotel immediately to the east, they planned to use the upper levels as overflow hotel rooms and the first . . . — — Map (db m194956) HM
Where We've Been
On February 23, 1905, the first Rotary Club was formed when Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business friends and acquaintances in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Also attending the meeting were Gustave Loehr, . . . — — Map (db m192104) HM
A substantial increase in the number of school age children caused overcrowding at existing city schools and led to the building of Emerson School in 1923. Designed to combine one- and two-story sections, it was completed at a cost of $100,000 and . . . — — Map (db m207157) HM
The First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Sioux Falls had its beginning in November of 1887 when two local attorneys, U. S. G. Cherry, and Sutton E. Young learned that they both had belonged elsewhere to the Christian Church (Disciples of . . . — — Map (db m208642) HM
Missionary Septimus Watson Ingham visited the falls of the Big Sioux River in June 1861 and delivered a sermon to about 20 residents of Sioux Falls City. It was the first Methodist service in the new Dakota Territory. Ten years later, C. V. Booth . . . — — Map (db m208643) HM
On July 23, 1851, at Traverse des Sioux, near present-day St. Peter, Minnesota, 35 Sisseton and Wahpeton chiefs and headmen signed a treaty that had a profound effect on the future Sioux Falls. More than 24 million acres of tribal land, including . . . — — Map (db m198707) HM
Drake Polishing Works operated on the east bank of the river, across from where you are now standing. Like other industries that located by the falls, it used the flow of the Big Sioux River to run its equipment. Unlike the other industries, . . . — — Map (db m112814) HM
Through the combined efforts of the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Board, the Northern States Power company, and the River Improvement Society (Rise). This bridge is dedicated to the people of Sioux Falls to provide better access to the city's . . . — — Map (db m112815) HM
This spot is near the center of an area called “Siouxland,” so named by writer Frederick F. Manfred (1912–1994). Manfred established a distinct identity for this region, the drainage basin of the Big Sioux River. It includes parts . . . — — Map (db m92175) HM
With a pioneer spirit Hazel O'Connor has continually let the way toward a better Sioux Falls. One of her many special concerns has been the Big Sioux River and the falls, the city's namesake. As a leader of the City Federation of Women's clubs, . . . — — Map (db m112819) HM
About 10,000 B.C., as the Wisconsin glacier retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, the first humans came into this region. These nomadic hunters pursued mammoths and other large mammals. Now known as Paleoindians, their spears were tipped with . . . — — Map (db m198702) HM
"The vast granite walls which have stood for years, rugged and wildly picturesque, a great and inspiring example of the handwork of God, are being smoothed away by the kiss of the hammer and the marvelous power of the explosives".
. . . — — Map (db m112813) HM
The late-Wisconsin Glacier was no ordinary sheet of ice! The glacier was one mile thick and it stretched from eastern Ohio to the Missouri River. It caused North America's most recent Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago.
As the glacier pushed . . . — — Map (db m112817) HM
South Dakota Mahogany Granite - Sculptor Darold E. Bailey - 1999
Herds of Buffalo Roamed the Falls Area in the 1800's
The First Sculpture at Falls Park
Sioux Falls Sponsors
Denny and Char Oviati
Freda Horsmann Dawley
David . . . — — Map (db m112687) HM
(Side One)
Congress appropriated $30,000 in 1881 for the construction of a prison in Sioux Falls to serve Dakota Territory. In order to finance a building large enough to house up to 150 inmates, the territorial legislature . . . — — Map (db m131714) HM
The Dubuque House, Sioux Falls’ first hotel, was built about 350 yards due west of this spot by Wilmot W. Brookings and members of the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, in September 1857. In the previous year, they had staked out a 320 acre . . . — — Map (db m184711) HM
For as long as humans have inhabited this area, they have been attracted by the Falls. Rumors about these falls drew early American explorers. The sound of the Falls could once be heard for several miles around.
The sound, smell and sight of . . . — — Map (db m198704) HM
The Sioux Quartzite, deposited more than a billion years ago, is among the oldest rock exposed in South Dakota. The quartzite and associated pipestone deposits were known to white men as early as 1822, but the American Indian used pipestone . . . — — Map (db m124602) HM
(side one)
In 1888, a year after the development of a great deposit of quartzite near Sioux Falls, newly opened quarries delivered stone to pave Philips Avenue, the city's first hard-surfaced street. Paving stones were a vast . . . — — Map (db m131987) HM
Albert M. Mansor was born in Aramta, a tiny village in Lebanon. At the age of 15, he immigrated to Sioux Falls to work in his uncle's East Side grocery store. After his uncle's death, Mansor was urged to liquidate; instead, he remained and worked to . . . — — Map (db m207162) HM
During the summer of 1974, the Sioux Falls School District agreed to launch an innovative elementary program at Irving School. Nancy Plato was chosen "Lead Teacher" and was charged with implementing an alternative school philosophy in a public . . . — — Map (db m222281) HM
Soon after this area was platted in 1889, the city of Sioux Falls installed a community well which was located at this spot. It was a source of water for livestock and household use. Local residents referred to it as the "town pump." Here they hand . . . — — Map (db m184689) HM
In March 1889, several months before South Dakota achieved statehood, Evan B. Meredith, first president of the University of Sioux Falls, platted a future residential community within the northwest boundary of early Sioux Falls. His purpose . . . — — Map (db m184687) HM
In March 1889, several months before South Dakota achieved statehood, Evan B. Meredith, first president of the University of Sioux Falls, platted a future residential community within the northwest boundary of early Sioux Falls. His purpose . . . — — Map (db m184688) HM
On September 24, 1888, soon after the Illinois Central Railroad entered Minnehaha County, the town of Ben Clare, Dakota Territory, was platted by Benjamin B. Richards. A product of the enthusiasm created by the great “Dakota Boom,” Richards named it . . . — — Map (db m155826) HM
No one knows when the first people came to live on the land that now comprises Minnehaha County, but native Woodland and Oneota peoples were here over 1000 years ago. The Big Sioux River which flows south through the county, appears on maps in . . . — — Map (db m179043) HM
On May 24, 2012, the South Dakota DOT Transportation Commission officially declared Interstate 90 from the Minnesota border to the Wyoming border as South Dakota's segment of the national Purple Heart Trail. The Purple Heart Trail was established in . . . — — Map (db m179044) HM
Pasque-crowned, green-kirtled Spring with a promise
Met our people that April day
As their oxen stopped their weary plodding
At a stream they could trace on their claim's survey.
-Adeline M. Jenney
Adeline Jenney, Second Poet . . . — — Map (db m181352) HM
1859
Set at the junction of the states of Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota Territory by the Federal Land Office survey of Minnesota 's western boundary.
Early 1900's
Removed after partial destruction by vandals.
1938
Repaired . . . — — Map (db m184713) HM
Valley Springs east gateway to Dakota Territory was established during 1868-1873 when pioneers settled by the spring fed creeks. The first white child born in Minnehaha County was in this area. Town was incorporated in 1878. First election was . . . — — Map (db m181357) HM
Indian and frontier legends mix with the space age as you enter South Dakota here. Just one and one-half miles south, Valley Springs typifies early South Dakota settlements. Established in 1873, the town got its name from the many springs found by . . . — — Map (db m179040) HM
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