What is Founders Park Plaza's mission?
1. To mark the location where the founding party camped in 1876 while they laid out Rapid City.
2. To honor Rapid City's founders and pioneers.
3. To educate visitors about the 50 years of Rapid . . . — — Map (db m187537) HM
John Richard Brennan
From John Brennan's Journal
February 23, 1876
A party consisting of W.P. Martin, J.W. Allen, Mart Persinger, William Marston, John R. Brennan, Tom Ferguson, and Dick King left Palmer Gulch with a view . . . — — Map (db m187538) HM
George B. Mansfield's drawing of Rapid City, Dakota Territory, 1876. Mansfield went on to become an executive with Dakota Power Co., organized 1883.
1. John W. Allen and Jake Claussen
2. John R. Brennan and Oscar Nicholson
3. Reddy Johnson . . . — — Map (db m187539) HM
Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy with his wife Fannie, at home at 727 South St. McGillycuddy was Mayor, Indian Agent, Dean of the School of Mines and South Dakota's first State Surgeon.
Joseph and Alice Gossage
Publishers of the city's most . . . — — Map (db m187540) HM
In Founders Park Plaza the history of the first developed part of Rapid City is literally written in concrete. The Plaza shows the town (in colored concrete) skewed on its foundation (in uncolored concrete), orienting the town toward magnetic north . . . — — Map (db m187541) HM
