Archie M. Gubbrud was born December 31, 1910, the eldest son of Marius T. Gubbrud and Ella Rommereim Gubbrud at his parental farm home in Norway Township, Lincoln County. He was brought up on this farmstead with a post office address of Alcester, . . . — — Map (db m189890) HM
Camp SCS-3 (DPE-211 in 1934): located in city park of NE Alcester. Companies: 2746--8/3-10/1/34 & 6/27/35-8/14/41; 4725V--8/15/41 - 5/27/42.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal work - relief program during the Great Depression. . . . — — Map (db m190163) HM
Dedicated To Those Who Served
May 27, 1991
Army Navy Marines Air Force Coast Guard
VFW American Legion
World War I · World War II · Korean War · Vietnam War
Lebanon · Desert Storm
Left obelisk:
Dear Lord, . . . — — Map (db m190081) WM
who was born Jan. 13, 1869 in Claremont County, Ohio. Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1893, emigrating to South Dakota in the same year, engaging in the practice of law at Beresford. He watched the new town grow, and helped develop it . . . — — Map (db m190082) HM
Headquarters
Grand Army of the Republic,
Washington, D.C. May 3, 1868.
I. The 30th Day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their . . . — — Map (db m190111) HM WM
Planted in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic Department of South Dakota June 6, 1927 by General G.M. Dodge Woman's Relief Corps No. 15, Beresford, South Dakota. — — Map (db m293734) HM WM
William J. Bulow was born in 1869 in Claremont County, Ohio. Receiving an LLB in 1893 from the University of Michigan, he came to South Dakota and opened a law practice in Beresford, where he served as mayor and city attorney before his election as . . . — — Map (db m293718) HM
On July 25, 2020, this location was dedicated to Jerry Seaman, Citizen Driver. Jerry's driving career started when he was just 12 years old, delivering goods from farm to market.
His distinguished 48 year career includes over 5 million . . . — — Map (db m264521) HM
When the famous Norwegian-American novelist Rölvaag (1876-1931) came to America, he worked on the 200-acre farm of Severt Eidem (NE quarter, Section 12, and 40 acres, Section 1, Brule Township), two miles north of this corner. Rölvaag's first book . . . — — Map (db m190165) HM
Beginning their journey on a diet of salt pork, lard with flour, and Indian mean (ground corn), Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the other members of the Corps of Discovery, went on to taste nearly everything the West had to offer - through . . . — — Map (db m100915) HM
Beginning their journey on a diet of salt, pork, lard, flour, and ground corn, Lewis, Clark, and the other members of the Corps of Discovery went on to taste nearly everything the West had to offer through necessity rather than choice. Wrestling . . . — — Map (db m315495) HM
Lewis & Clark camped here and said much ‘elk sign’ on August 22, 1804 and held first election in northwest that evening.
In 1856, the Sioux City-Ft. Randall Military Road passed hereby.
Eli Wixson arrived on 22 July 1859 and built a log . . . — — Map (db m180963) HM
The Missouri River Valley, up to this location, was well-known to French and British fur trappers. For decades, trappers navigated down the Big Sioux River and the lower Missouri toward St. Louis. Due to the intimidating presence of the Yankton . . . — — Map (db m100914) HM
The Missouri Valley, up to this location, was well-known to French and British fur trappers. For decades, trappers navigated down the Big Sioux River and the lower Missouri toward St. Louis. Due to the intimidating presence of the Yankton and Teton . . . — — Map (db m315491) HM
Lewis & Clark reached a point in what is now Sioux City on August 20, 1804 near the mouth of Floyd River. Sergeant Charles Floyd, who had been taken sick with a "Biliose Chorlick" the day before, died near a bluff on the east side of the river. The . . . — — Map (db m190114) HM
Ponca Tribal Flag
Native American hunters, farmers, and fishers who occupied this region prior to European exploration.
Yankton Tribal Flag
The Yankhtoni or "People of the end Village" settled in this area as early as 1730 after . . . — — Map (db m315671) HM
The second rude cross erected on that miraculous day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholics & Protestants on an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention in the grasshopper plague, was where you see the large . . . — — Map (db m190124) HM
Lewis & Clark Campsite
The Missouri River has carved many channels in its history. One such channel curved through the western edge of Elk Point creating the area now known as Heritage Park.
On August 22, 1804, Captain William Clark . . . — — Map (db m100821) HM
By a vote of the Corps...
Sergeant Patrick Gass was elected to replace Sergeant Floyd, who died two days earlier. This vote on August 22, 1804 at the "Elk Sign" campsite (Elk Point), tested the noble experiment of the United States democracy . . . — — Map (db m315660) HM
The Corps of Discovery returned to this location after a two-year absence on September 3, 1806. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark found their "Elk sign" campsite occupied by James Aird, a Scottish fur trader. They pressed him eagerly for news . . . — — Map (db m100912) HM
The Corps of Discovery returned to this location after a two-year absence on September 3, 1806. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark found their "Elk Sign" campsite occupied by James Aird, a Scottish fur trader. They pressed him eagerly for news from . . . — — Map (db m315503) HM
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery" to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired . . . — — Map (db m100917) HM
While camped at the "Elk Sign" campsite on August 22, 1804, Captain Merriwether Lewis and William Clark acted to replace Sergeant Charles Floyd, who had taken ill and died two days earlier. They called for the Corps of Discovery to vote on Floyd's . . . — — Map (db m315501) HM
While camped at the "Elk Sign" campsite on August 22, 1804, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark acted to replace Sergeant Charles Floyd, who had taken ill and died two days earlier. They called for the Corps of Discovery to vote on . . . — — Map (db m100916) HM
Dakota's first flour mill was established in 1867, after the Legislature gave them a water right on the Big Sioux five miles northeast, by Preston Hotchkiss & Amos Dexter on Lot 3, Section 32, Township 91, Range 48. They sold to Crill & Sargent in . . . — — Map (db m190127) HM
Just 14 miles from Sioux City on the Military Road from that place to Ft. Randall, this house was built of logs by Francis Reandeau about 1861. A Frenchman, he and his son, Lyzimon, whose name is carved on one of the original logs, ran this stage . . . — — Map (db m190126) HM
The Huge wooden cross in the cemetery, replaced the rude one erected on that day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholic & Protestant marchers back to Jefferson, after an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention . . . — — Map (db m180962) HM
Dedicated May 29, 1989
Revolutionary War
April 19, 1775
October 19, 1781
Civil War
April 12, 1861
April 9, 1865
Spanish American War
February 15, 1898
December 10, 1898
World War I
April 6, 1917 . . . — — Map (db m315759) WM
The vicinity of Jefferson, even before the organization of Dakota Territory in 1861, was a French-Canadian community and Catholic services were held sporadically prior to the advent of Father Pierre Boucher in 1867. In 1862 a small log building . . . — — Map (db m189898) HM
Was a road house twelve miles from Sioux City run by Desiree Chausee. It was a log building right here. It was also the site of Willow's Post Office. Postmasters were William Mathers, 19 August 1861; Desire Chausee in 1864; Charles Heath in 1865 and . . . — — Map (db m190149) HM
In 1872, Elmwood Cemetery, formerly known as "Isaac Quick's Burying Ground," was established about half a mile north of the town of Texas City. Texas City had been established in 1870 by Solomon B. Stough and William Dunmere Long, residents of . . . — — Map (db m315753) HM
Lewis and Clark
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, officially the Corps of Discovery, was in what is now South Dakota from August 21 to October 14, 1804 and from August 21 to September 4, 1806.
While here they would make numerous . . . — — Map (db m315828) HM
Dedicated to the Veterans of this area by the city of North Sioux City August 8, 1999
All Gave Some Some Gave All
Harkness Arnold A ·
Harkness Guy J ·
Harkness Alvin L ·
Harkness Blair A ·
Booe William E ·
Bristol Dustin . . . — — Map (db m315894) WM
Created with its twin, North Dakota, 2 November 1889, its 77,047 square miles ranks 15th in size. Those square miles include: exceptional corn land in the SE, grass land in the W, wheat land in the N and productive land all over. Its . . . — — Map (db m190154) HM
This memorial commemorates all of the residents of Siouxland who served in the military during all of America's wars. These men and women left this beautiful region to serve the nation, often in distant tropical, artic, and desert lands. Many never . . . — — Map (db m315831) WM
Stephen Searls and Hannah Goodell Adams left the eastern United States in 1872 and came to Dakota Territory in search of a new way of life. Through the Homestead Act, Stephen purchased Civil War soldiers' homesteading rights and settled on this . . . — — Map (db m315825) HM
This granite block erected by the Old Settlers Association of Union County, South Dakota, marks the site of Fort Brule Built in 1862 by soldiers and settlers as protection against renegade and hostile Indians. Abandoned in 1868 Dismantled . . . — — Map (db m190166) HM
Rev. S.W. Ingham, a travelling Missionary, in 1861 baptized Minnesota Watson, daughter of Thomas and Adeline Watson, who with A.J. Bell and wife were its earliest members in the Brule Creek community. The Indian War of the Outbreak in August 1862 . . . — — Map (db m189894) HM
Site of
First Norwegian
Lutheran Church
in
Dakota Territory
1868-1938
Charter Members of St. Paul Lutheran Church
Of Aug. 12, 1863
K. P. Ronne
Thomas Olesen Aune
Helge Mathiasen
Ole Oleson
Anders Anderson
Melkjor . . . — — Map (db m190112) HM
Stately church edifices frequently have humble beginnings and so with St. Paul Lutheran Church, one of South Dakota's finest. The humble log church pictured hereon was erected in 1867 by the members of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation . . . — — Map (db m189892) HM
Front
The first parish in Garryowen was organized in 1879. St. Mary's Church and cemetery were located together on five acres of land donated by Patrick Mahan. The church eventually became too small for a growing community and a larger . . . — — Map (db m93597) HM
The rich farm country of southeast South Dakota lies in the triangle formed as the Missouri River, to the west, and the Big Sioux River, east of here, flow toward their confluence about 37 miles southeast of this point. This was the land that drew . . . — — Map (db m179908) HM
The Missouri, the continent's longest river, figures prominently in the unfolding of America's saga. Flowing nearby in its 2,341 - mile course from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi, the Big Muddy is not only loaded with sediment but steeped in . . . — — Map (db m92825) HM
