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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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Fashioned of maple logs harvested from the banks of the Big Sioux River near Renner, this rustic home was built by Lars Kvernmo with the help of neighbors John Nelson (one of the first Norwegian immigrants in Minnehaha county) and Ole Gilseth. It . . . — — Map (db m244823) HM
to grow well, to be strong and healthy, especially because conditions are right
header:East Sioux Falls
East Sioux Falls, 1890. Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums [SHM 78.35.32]
Pink . . . — — Map (db m199106) HM
to develop leaves, known as foliage
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Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 92.8.16]
Saloons
East Sioux Falls was filled with quarrymen that needed an . . . — — Map (db m199153) HM
Side one:
Two "flying classroom" Lockheed twin engine AT-18 medium bombers collided in midair above the Sioux Falls Army Air Force Base December 8, 1944. Three crewmen, four students on board, and three students in a barracks below were . . . — — Map (db m194621) HM
Fort Dakota was established in 1865 at the abandoned Sioux Falls City town site. Regulars of the 22nd U.S. Infantry Regiment were stationed there in 1866. Four men from this regiment died before the fort was closed in 1869. They were buried in the . . . — — Map (db m206795) HM
The President of the United States
in the name of The Congress
takes pleasure in presenting the
Congressional Medal of Honor to
Foss, Joseph Jacob
Captain, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Marine Fighting Squadron 121, 1st Marine . . . — — Map (db m208044) HM
After emigrating from County Donegal, Ireland, Robert and Lillie Foster settled in a sod house about three miles northwest of this marker in late 1872. Six of their nine children shared the small, primitive home. Within months, two of the children . . . — — Map (db m187458) HM
Quartzite is the stone you see revealed throughout Falls Park. Sioux Quartzite is the local name for his stone. It was also called Jasper. Sioux Quartzite provided both the physical and financial base for the city of Sioux Falls.
Quartzite is . . . — — Map (db m124199) HM
to produce fruit; the ripened ovaries containing seeds
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Federal Building, originally Post Office and Federal Courthouse.
Architectural
Quartzite stone is used today, as it was in the past, for . . . — — Map (db m199074) HM
to grow from a seed or spore into a new individual
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Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums, Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 41.15.20]
Illinois Central Railroad
In 1887, the quarries at East . . . — — Map (db m199157) HM
"He shall swallow up death in victory.....
And this mortal shall put on immortality."
Isaiah 25:8, 1 Corinthians 15:53
Dedicated to all the men and women who have
sacrificed their lives in defense of the United
States of . . . — — Map (db m208153) WM
This monument honors, recognizes and serves Gold Star Families and the legacy of their Loved Ones who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the armed forces of the United States of America.
The Homeland panel depicts images . . . — — Map (db m208037) WM
As many as 62 children at a time were taught in this typical one-room schoolhouse. It was the largest and best-equipped school in Minnehaha County when it was built. Winter sessions began after harvest, November or December, with a spring session . . . — — Map (db m244821) HM
During the City's early years, a number of industries located at the Falls of the Big Sioux River and used the energy produced by the river's flow to run their machinery.
The Queen Bee Mill and the Sioux Falls Light & Power Company . . . — — Map (db m124191) HM
For more than a century, the educational needs of children in this area have been served by six successive schools. On April 17, 1872, the Wayne Township District No. 10 School Board voted to "build a sod school house." Teacher Elsie Barnes held . . . — — Map (db m222306) HM
An early pioneer and land
speculator in Sioux Falls,
Helen McKennan
recognized a need for
city parks. She donated
her home and 20 acres of
adjacent land in 1906 to
become what is now
known as McKennan Park.
Martin . . . — — Map (db m113432) HM
Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division
Chungehon, Korea, 22 April 1951
Born 1 July 1930, Mena, Arkansas
Entered service at Blackhawk, South Dakota
For conspicuous . . . — — Map (db m208046) HM
The Falls were at the heart of the young city of Sioux Falls — nicknamed the Queen City. The Queen Bee Mill stood at the most powerful point of the Falls and was a center of activity in the 1880s.
The Queen Bee Mill was sited to take full . . . — — Map (db m124190) HM
Enraged over the broken promises of the white man, the Santee Sioux, led by Chief Little Crow, launched the "War of the Outbreak" - or "Dakota War" - in August, 1862, along the Minnesota River. Little Crow ordered White . . . — — Map (db m184699) HM
(side 1)
The changing of global sea levels over millions of years was a major factor in determining the ancient geography of Minnehaha County. Through much of geologic time, salty warm-water seas covered the interior of the United . . . — — Map (db m124175) HM
Orderly Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps,
U.S.S. Ticonderoga
Second battle of Fort Fisher - 13 to 15 January 1865
G.O. No. 59 - 22 June 1865
Born 21 February 1839 - Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Entered service in Pennsylvania
Died 3 November 1900 . . . — — Map (db m208050) HM
After their September 7, 1876, failed attempt to rob a bank at Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse and Frank James separated from the Younger Brothers gang, rode southwest, and entered Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory.
Little direct evidence exists . . . — — Map (db m197202) HM
So named by the City of Sioux Falls on June 13, 1932
On May 4, 1932 Kiwanis Club members planted 70 trees along Harvard Ave., one for each club member, from 18th St. north.
In response to this and at the suggestion of Ed Smith, the City . . . — — Map (db m244810) HM
Lady Liberty first graced McKennan Park in 1942 although the statue was not formally dedicated until August 1, 1943. As several thousand watched, twins Thelma and Elma Iverson unveiled a wood carving of the Statue of Liberty. The statue had been . . . — — Map (db m113437) HM
This stone marks the SW corner of a
Land Grant
by Richard F. Pettigrew and Samuel L. Tate
which assured the building of the
Lutheran Normal School
Dakota Territory 1889
Augustana College moved to
Sioux Falls and merged with . . . — — Map (db m207103) HM
Lieutenant Colonel (then Major) U.S. Air Force,
357th Tactical Fighter Squadron over North Vietnam, 19 April 1967
Born 14 February 1932, Walnut Grove, MN;
entered service at Walnut Grove, MN
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the . . . — — Map (db m208043) HM
During the American Revolution in 1776, patriots held secret meetings to debate the issues of the day. These meetings were frequently held under the branches of large oak trees called liberty trees. It was there that liberty was born, and where . . . — — Map (db m207931) HM
Side 1
When T.H. Lewis surveyed burial mounds in this area in 1884, he sketched an unusual and puzzling linear or "cigar" shaped mound at this spot. Lying from the southeast to the northwest, it measured 60 by 20 feet and was 1 foot . . . — — Map (db m139854) HM
This bell tower, erected by the PTA in 1968, was constructed from rock salvaged from the original Lowell School built in 1892 and demolished during the summer of 1967.
The bell, once enclosed in the tower of the first Lowell building, is the . . . — — Map (db m207154) HM
(side one)
Almost 1.2 billion years ago molten rock called magma from deep in the Earth flowed up between two adjoining tectonic plates them located under present day eastern Minnesota. Through a process called rifting some magma . . . — — Map (db m133547) HM
Mammoths entered the New World approximately 1.7 million years ago and ranged through this hemisphere until their final extinction occurred at the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) about 10,000 years ago. The mammoth was the largest land mammal that . . . — — Map (db m207104) HM
This radar antenna was removed from the USS South Dakota BB-57 when she was sold for scrap in 1962. For many years it was on display at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C.
Four of these units were originally installed on the South . . . — — Map (db m146014) HM
In late July 1864, members of a uniformed, all-Indian, Yankton Agency scout unit followed the trail of an unknown war party. When the warriors attempted to flee, they were pursued, captured, and taken to the Yankton's camp about one mile north of . . . — — Map (db m194664) HM
This garden is dedicated to the Sioux Falls and regional recipients of the Medal of Honor. The president, in the name of Congress, has awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to our nation's bravest soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast . . . — — Map (db m208038) WM
Memorial to
the Pioneers
of
Minnehaha County
1856 1889
Erected by the
Minnehaha County
Historical Society
- 1949 -
The Pioneer Memorial
Honors the early settlers who faced the harsh and lonely . . . — — Map (db m184705) HM
Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army
Troop D, 2d Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division
Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam, 23 March 1971
Born 9 March 1950, Jamestown, North Dakota
Entered service at Jamestown, ND
For conspicuous . . . — — Map (db m208039) HM
Two airplanes from the Sioux Falls Army Air Force Radio Training School collided above this site on December 8, 1944. Ten airmen died. The planes were twin-engined AT-18 medium bombers reconfigured as "flying classrooms." Interiors had been stripped . . . — — Map (db m207939) HM
Following the founding of Sioux Falls City in 1856, a trail was developed on the east side of the Big Sioux River. It linked the tiny village with Sioux City, Iowa. After the Amidon slayings in 1862, Sioux Falls City was abandoned.
In 1865 Lt. . . . — — Map (db m199850) HM
In 1905 a few Sioux Falls men set out for a round of golf on a primitive nine-hole course situated on 40 acres of what was then the southern edge of Sioux Falls now the McKennan Park area. It was the beginning of the Minnehaha Country Club (MCC), . . . — — Map (db m206781) HM
Following the end of World War II, returning veterans fueled a demand for housing that led to a surge of growth in Sioux Falls' East Side. In 1953 the national Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and First Lutheran Church of Sioux Falls partnered . . . — — Map (db m199752) HM
Created between 1513 and 1515
by Italian Renaissance Master
Michelangelo Buonarroti
(born 1475 and died 1564)
This bronze cast of the original marble sculpture was given to Augustana College and the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota by . . . — — Map (db m207105) HM
Side 1
Pioneer archeologist Dr. W.H. Over recorded that the prehistoric builders of the nearby Sherman Park burial mounds lived in a 10-acre village on a lower terrace south of this location. The village extended west from 26th Street . . . — — Map (db m139822) HM
In late 1873, the young frontier town of Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, population 150, established its first cemetery organization, Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Initially, twenty acres of land were purchased at a location east of town presumed to be . . . — — Map (db m181920) HM
The first effort to establish an airport at this location was undertaken in 1936 by Mayor A. N. Graff, who advocated purchase of 320 acres of Water Department land. On April 16, 1937, the Department of Air Commerce approved the site for a proposed . . . — — Map (db m194625) HM
Sioux Falls took its name from these falls which are located in the Big Sioux River. Surrounded by a sea of grass, the falls were a remarkable discovery for explorers. For the land speculators that followed the explorers, these falls provided an . . . — — Map (db m127423) HM
With reverence, humility, and enormous respect, we honor our soldiers who have lost their lives abroad in the line of duty.
Their courageous acts and personal sacrifice embody the meaning of valor. May this memorial stand as a continual . . . — — Map (db m208034) WM
This garden is a living tribute to all of America's veterans and their families. In silence and respect, this is a place to remember why millions of Americans have fought and died for our liberty and our freedom. Here we renew our promise to fulfill . . . — — Map (db m208149) WM
In pioneer times, much of the entertainment was "home made." Rural schools and churches were social centers where lectures, debates, contests, recitations, and music delighted farm families. In small towns, the bandstands in the park were where . . . — — Map (db m244822) HM
Under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, Indians were permitted to claim 160-acre homesteads on public lands. In February of 1869, a band of Dakota families left the Santee Agency at Niobrara, Nebr., to head for eastern Dakota Territory. They were on . . . — — Map (db m208567) HM
"As long as our rivers flow, or mountains stand, ...say to the rising generations, imitate the excellence of Patrick Henry!" Virginia Gazette, June 14, 1799.
Patrick Henry, 1736-1799, was a distinguished orator, lawyer, and politician. . . . — — Map (db m199746) HM
Major, U.S. Army, Medical Service Corps,
54th Medical Detachment, 67th Medical Group, 44th Medical Brigade
near Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam, 6 January 1968
Born 1 October 1936, Philip, South Dakota
Entered service at Seattle, Washington . . . — — Map (db m208042) HM
Various explorers may have visited the falls of the Big Sioux River in the 17th and 18th centuries, but there is no definite proof. An early State Historian, Doane Robinson, believed that Charles Le Sueur had visited the falls as early as 1683. . . . — — Map (db m198700) HM
With World War II threatening the tranquility of the United States in 1940, Oscar Ellefson, caretaker and builder of many early McKennan Park attractions, proposed a new project. Ellefson envisioned designing and building two pillars made of . . . — — Map (db m113450) HM
This is one of the two hatches from the conning tower of the USS South Dakota.
Thickness - 16" Weight - 6,000#
The conning tower was located at 04 level which was about 35' above the main deck
Conning tower armor: sides - 16" Thick . . . — — Map (db m146024) HM
The Little Flower orphanage for Catholic children opened at Turton, S.D. in 1924. Eight years later an attic fire raged out of control and destroyed the home. Over the next few years, the more than 60 homeless children were shuttled to makeshift . . . — — Map (db m207156) HM
On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the . . . — — Map (db m112633) HM
to plant an area by sowing seeds; to encourage new ventures
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In 1997, the Perry family agreed to sell 55.07 acres of land to the City of Sioux Falls and made an additional . . . — — Map (db m199108) HM
Sertoma Park is located in an old oxbow of the Sioux River. This urban site, with its tree-lined oxbows and river environment, offers an opportunity for increased public awareness and understanding of the outdoors. It can also offer an increase in . . . — — Map (db m208524) HM
With pioneer spirit, the 28 year old Mr. Sherman arrived in Sioux Falls in June of 1873. He invested in real estate, milling, banking, an electric plant, and a railway company.
E.A. Sherman was involved in the community as County . . . — — Map (db m131984) HM
(South Side)
E.A. Sherman Devoted his life to creating and promoting a park system in Sioux Falls. After unsuccessfully lobbing for the creation of a park commission, Sherman began his legacy with a 1907 election to the city council. . . . — — Map (db m131978) HM
In these mounds were buried the physical remains of Indians who lived in eastern South Dakota 1600 years ago. Radiocarbon testing established the time of the burials. Known to archaeologists as the Woodland Indians, they moved westward from the . . . — — Map (db m179951) HM
The Renovation and Restoration of the
Shoto-Teien Japanese Gardens
Terrace Park at Covell Lake
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Terrace Park Japanese Gardens were originally created from 1926 to 1936. In 1984, after years of neglect, a . . . — — Map (db m207213) HM
This is the location of the historical Big Sioux River channel. This area, like many along the Big Sioux River's banks were very susceptible to seasonal flooding - predominantly caused by snowmelt runoff and by rainfall.
To improve the City's . . . — — Map (db m212171) HM
In February 1942 civic leaders in Sioux Falls became aware that the city was being considered for a possible defense facility. They indicated that a military installation would revitalize a rater stagnant economy as well as reflecting the city's . . . — — Map (db m169910) HM
On Sunday July 11, 1920, at McKennan Park, several thousand people attended the first concert of the Sioux Falls Municipal Band. A year earlier, in the first city election allowing women to vote, citizens approved a proposal to support a city . . . — — Map (db m113433) HM
Following the advent of powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, the dawning air age slowly arrived in Sioux Falls. In June 1912, a Curtis Pusher biplane was the first airplane to enter the skies over the city. It was delivered . . . — — Map (db m182227) HM
Beginning in 1945 several proactive Sioux Falls women sought to dispel a widely held opinion: if a child were mentally impaired and unable to attend a public school, it was a hopeless task to try to train the child to live a useful life. Dorothy . . . — — Map (db m194777) HM
The Reverend Thomas Berry, an Episcopal clergyman, took the first steps toward the establishment of a formal program for the education of deaf children in Dakota Territory. Berry taught at schools for the deaf in Maryland and New York before moving . . . — — Map (db m194744) HM
to germinate, to grow from a seed, to emerge and grow rapidly
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The Neighboring Rowena Quarry, 1890. Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM . . . — — Map (db m199078) HM
In February 1870 Frank and Martha Raymond dug into the frozen hillside and built a small primitive home at this site. It was next to a wagon road that led to Wall Lake and the Yankton Trail. A small house was built the following year. Later the . . . — — Map (db m208566) HM
After arriving in Dakota Territory, John Elm, of Swedish stock, met and in 1887 married Dina Mathison, a Norwegian immigrant. The couple lived in East Sioux Falls, a company town. A quarry company owned the entire town site, including the Elm home, . . . — — Map (db m199158) HM
Nick Piantanida dreamed of recapturing the world free-fall record from the Soviet Union and made three attempts to do so, including two ascensions from the Sioux Falls Municipal Airport. The New Jersey native was determined to exceed the new record . . . — — Map (db m194619) HM
The "Rosie the Riveter" Memorial Rose Garden
The extraordinary efforts of women on our Home Front during WWII significantly changed our society - yet the story of these "ordinary heroes" is rarely heard.
"Those who served in uniform . . . — — Map (db m241191) HM
The 1862 Sioux Uprising, a result of unjust government treatment, claimed many Indian and non-Indian lives. Near this place on August 25, 1862, two of its victims, Judge Joseph B. Amidon and his son, William, were killed while making hay on their . . . — — Map (db m184710) HM
Side 1 Between about 1913 and 1920, adventurous children and adults could enjoy exciting rides on a giant plank-and-timber, tin-lined slide which began near this marker. The slide was the creation of Edwin A. Sherman, a
local real estate . . . — — Map (db m139332) HM
The Episcopal congregation was initiated in 1878, and the church was built in Parker between the late 1880s and the early 1890s. In 1903 the church was consecrated by Bishop William Hobart Hare. It featured a hand-carved wooden altar. Later, the . . . — — Map (db m244820) HM
From 1887 to about 1913, this area, bordering the Big Sioux River, was the thriving community of East Sioux Falls. The city boasted a hotel, several boarding houses, saloons and retail stores, a town hall, a cricket team, at least three . . . — — Map (db m181620) HM
Side 1
Between 300 to 1000 A.D., stone-age people of the Late Woodland culture lived nearby. They were among the first permanent residents of Sioux Falls. Proof of their existence is provided by the line of five burial mounds that they . . . — — Map (db m139820) HM
The first airplane flight over Sioux Falls took place only nine years after the flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. To entertain a state convention here, local B.P.O. Elks Lodge No. 262 contracted with the Curtiss . . . — — Map (db m199871) HM
Led by E.A. Sherman, various park features and gardens began to appear with its official opening in 1908. This included a Caretaker's Lodge. The City Greenhouse was added in the 1920's as McKennan Park became a showcase of floral innovations. . . . — — Map (db m238271) HM
A highland existed along the east side of South Dakota long before the Ice Age began two million years ago. Successive periods of glaciation deposited sediment across the highland and increased its elevation.
The last glaciation began 35,000 . . . — — Map (db m187261) HM
The vision of trying to obtain a 16" - 94 ton 62 ft long battleship gun barrel had it's beginning in November 1992. While Captain Witte, USNR (Ret), president of the Battleship Memorial Foundation was showing a Veterans Day guest speaker the . . . — — Map (db m146030) HM
The Helen McKennan Home was built by Col. Melvin Grigsby on land platted as part of the Boulevard Addition in 1883. The elegant, two and a half story Italiante structure sat on what became the northwest corner of the Park. Helen McKennan lived there . . . — — Map (db m238269) HM
The original McKennan Park pond was constructed as a small lake in 1908 by E. A. Sherman to beautify the park. It served as a "swimming hole" until 1929 when a permanent concrete wading pool was built south and west of the Sunken Gardens. This . . . — — Map (db m238274) HM
Built in 1931 by Park Employees, the Miniature Rock Garden and Village was located northeast of the Formal Gardens near the Park Greenhouses. Boasting a miniature town with homes, a church, light and power buildings, a model railroad, and a goldfish . . . — — Map (db m186529) HM
Here is preserved
the Old Yankton Trail
and
Stage Road
Over this trail the people of
Sioux Falls fled to Yankton
under cavalry escort for
safety from hostile
Sioux Indians, Aug. 28, 1862 — — Map (db m97298) HM
The ball diamond was built shortly after the park opened. It served as the city's sole baseball field and home to both local amateur and professional teams. 'Fly balls', however, proved to be dangerous to the public in the adjacent wooded picnic . . . — — Map (db m238278) HM
This view of the lower level of the Hydroelectric plant shows the massive pipes that channeled the river's flow to three electric generators. Water entered the plant through the flume at the back of the room and flowed through the large gate . . . — — Map (db m112689) HM
The Queen Bee Mill, a goliath among mills in early Dakota Territory, once stood tall and proud here on the bank of the Big Sioux River. A large quartzite deposit on the site was used to build an impressive seven-story flour mill.
The . . . — — Map (db m124251) HM
Typical in many ways of the small-town depot, this building was unusual in being part of the South Dakota Railroad, one of the few rail lines built inside the state. The line was built originally from Sioux Falls to Colton, and then to Rutland, and . . . — — Map (db m244815) HM
The Sunken Garden was constructed in 1936 and hosted a sundial, fountain and sculpture of Hansel and Gretel. The manicured garden displays included an adjacent McKennan Park floral nameplate throughout the 1930s - 1950s, which was brought back in . . . — — Map (db m238270) HM
The first tennis courts in McKennan Park were constructed in 1909. These grass and clay courts were in use until 1945 when the tennis courts were rebuilt out of concrete. McKennan Park became well known for both recreational and championship tennis . . . — — Map (db m238268) HM
to dig something up out of the ground; to find something that has been lost or hidden
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Photo courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 78.35.28]
Historic Site . . . — — Map (db m199148) HM
The outline of this ship was erected by the officers and men of the Naval Reserve in cooperation with the Sioux Falls Bi-Centennial Commission, Sioux Falls Park Department and the Battleship Foundation. It is dedicated to the Officers and men who . . . — — Map (db m146017) WM
to sprout, to grow like a plant
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Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 78.35.28]
Life of a Stonecutter
The life of a quarry worker included long hours and . . . — — Map (db m199150) HM
The Veterans' Memorial Park is dedicated to the men and women who serve in the military of the United States of America. It honors those who sacrifice to defend liberty and to free others enslaved in tyranny. It preserves the memory of those who . . . — — Map (db m208156) WM
This site was once part of Wallner Gardens, a family farming business founded by F. X. Wallner in 1912 when he moved his operation from Yankton to Sioux Falls. Wallner, a German-born immigrant, was a leading expert in plant science and served as a . . . — — Map (db m187264) HM
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