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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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First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 45th Infantry Philippine Scouts
Near Bagac, Bataan Province, Philippine Islands,
3 February 1942 G.O. No.: 11, 5 March 1942
Born 12 March 1915, New Ulm, Minnesota
Entered service at New Ulm, Minnesota
For . . . — — Map (db m208049) HM
to droop, to become weak and tired, to lose confidence and enthusiasm
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East Sioux Falls Quarrymen. Photo courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums.
Progress
By 1896, the . . . — — Map (db m199079) HM
Master Sergeant, US Army George Company, 2nd Battalion,
19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
Sangsan-ni, Korea, on October 20, 1951
Born 16 May 1917, Waubay South Dakota
Medal of Honor awarded posthumously on March 3, 2008
For . . . — — Map (db m208047) HM
This site has been an important Big Sioux River crossing for more than 300 years. As early as the 1700s the Yankton Sioux forded the river here and often made camp while en route to pipestone quarries in Minnesota.
After the slaying of Judge . . . — — Map (db m187262) HM
McKinney-Beveridge Auto Company
McKinney Loan and Investment Company
All Saints Historic District
National Register of Historic Places — — Map (db m199744) HM
All Saints School was founded in 1884 by Bishop William Hobart Hare as an Episcopalian
boarding school for daughters of missionary clergy men and other young women in Dakota Territory. In memory of his late wife and in tribute to all women, he . . . — — Map (db m184709) HM
On December 28, 1890, 500 well-armed soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry surrounded a tepee camp of 350 Lakota prisoners of war at Wounded Knee Creek S.D. During a search for weapons the next morning, a Lakota accidentally discharged his rifle. Reacting . . . — — Map (db m131968) HM
In 1859 the Tredegar Foundry of Richmond, Virginia, made this smoothbore 42-pounder gun for the federal government. The long-barreled cannon was one of a group of twelve and was designed to fire round cannonballs 2000 yards in a low, nearly flat . . . — — Map (db m199671) HM
The Lyon Family Home
The home, pictured above, was built by Jacob and Katie Schaetzel in 1881, on the northeast corner of 11th Street and Dakota Avenue. Jacob Schaetzel was village president, and later was elected as the first mayor of . . . — — Map (db m199677) HM
The Soldier Statue & Cannon
On Friday, September 4, 1904 a statue of a soldier, known as the "American Volunteer," and a surplus cannon were placed by the Joe Hooker Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veterans organization, . . . — — Map (db m199670) HM
On April 23, 1879, The Dakota Pantagraph announced: "R. F. Pettigrew will build him a fine residence in Bennett's addition this summer."
Richard Franklin Pettigrew (July 23, 1848-October 5, 1926) was a lawyer, surveyor, and land . . . — — Map (db m207164) HM
Cathedral Historic District
This historic paving stone alley is an important part of the Cathedral Historic district which was placed on The National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1974 as the first historic district in South Dakota. . . . — — Map (db m222285) HM
Since the territorial days of 1870's, Jewish people have played an important role in the social, economic and cultural life of South Dakota. In the 1880's, Sioux Falls experienced an influx of Reformed Jews from Germany, who became some of the . . . — — Map (db m134205) HM
On August 25, 1862, Willie Amidon, son of Judge Joseph B. Amidon, stumbled upon a war party of Santee Sioux hiding in a cornfield on the bluffs north of Sioux Falls City. The concealed warriors were waiting for nightfall, or dawn, to launch a . . . — — Map (db m194696) HM
This 1887 mansion was the home of Moses Kaufmann, a partner in the Sioux Falls Brewery, and his wife Emma. In February 1906 they hired teenager Agnes Polreis as their new servant girl. She died June 1.
At her funeral in Parkston, friends became . . . — — Map (db m194684) HM
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the preeminent leader of the movement to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means, arrived in Sioux Falls on January 12, 1961, a guest of nearby St. John's Baptist . . . — — Map (db m208208) HM
The Search
In late 1924, Richard Pettigrew began searching for a sacred boulder to add to his museum. He had heard about a large rock with symbols on it called Medicine Rock, located near Gettysburg, South Dakota. Pettigrew wanted . . . — — Map (db m131985) HM
In 1925, a man asked a Sioux Elder how old the carvings on this type of rock were. The reply: "My grandfather was a very old man when I was a little boy. When he was a little boy the rock was just the same (already carved)".
-R.F. Pettigrew . . . — — Map (db m192306) HM
Near this site in a giant tent on May 9, 1900, the People's Party held its national convention in Sioux Falls to select its second presidential candidate. The Populist Party, as it was also known, was primarily a political party of Westerners and . . . — — Map (db m194685) HM
In 1911, Sioux Falls had no public rest rooms or rest areas for women visiting the city or employed in local businesses. Recognizing the need, Edith Kellar Lillibridge and Anna M. Eddy assembled 30 women to organize the Woman's Alliance as a . . . — — Map (db m194692) HM
In 1859 Henry Masters, governor of the squatter government at Sioux Falls City, was the first resident of the village to die. He was buried in an open field near his home, close to this location.
The next deaths were those of Judge Joseph B. . . . — — Map (db m207159) HM
Richard Franklin Pettigrew was 20 years old in the spring of 1869 when he first came to Dakota Territory from Wisconsin as a member of a government surveying party. Pettigrew decided to settle in Sioux Falls, and join in the building of a city. . . . — — Map (db m184712) HM
This is the location of the first bridge to span the Big Sioux River at Sioux Falls. Built in 1876, the original bridge was washed out in the flood of 1881. The present bridge is an earth filled, three span arch bridge, which was considered an . . . — — Map (db m194903) HM
This is the location of the first bridge to span the Big Sioux River at Sioux Falls. Built in 1876, the original bridge was washed out in the flood of 1881. The present bridge is an earth filled, three span arch bridge, which was considered an . . . — — Map (db m194908) HM
Calvary Cathedral was built through the efforts of William Hobart Hare, early missionary and the first Episcopal bishop in Dakota Territory. He persuaded wealthy capitalist John Jacob Astor, owner of the American Fur Trading Company, to contribute . . . — — Map (db m208649) HM
As the lesser known of the original mills built in early Sioux Falls along the banks of the Big Sioux River, the Cascade Mill was built slightly before its bigger, more expensive, grandiose neighbor at the falls - The Queen Bee Mill. At half the . . . — — Map (db m194828) HM
The Cascade Milling Company, built in 1877 for E.A. Sherman and other investors, was located on the east bank of the river and north of the 8th Street bridge. The Company became the first to sell electricity in the city in 1885. An electric . . . — — Map (db m194907) HM
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Between 1870 and 1920, Phillips Avenue was the center of a thriving cigar manufacturing industry. An average of four or five small cigar factories operated within a few blocks of this spot. Because the typical smoker consumed . . . — — Map (db m124098) HM
There were several flour mills and lumberyards along the early downtown riverfront. Railroads linked local suppliers with buyers across the Midwest but flooding and a lack of reliable river levels eventually led to a redevelopment of the area. . . . — — Map (db m195032) HM
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After two decades of presidents' appointing governors and other officials from outside the territory, a statehood movement began in the 1880s in the southern half of Dakota Territory. The movement was led by a small group of . . . — — Map (db m169922) HM
On this site in March 1910, Bernard Scott Reardon, Sr. and an associate founded the Dakota Iron Store as a wholesale distributor of heavy hardware, farm equipment, and automotive parts and supplies.
In 1975 the corporate name was changed to DaKon . . . — — Map (db m124197) HM
On March 6, 1934, John Dillinger led five other gangsters in a brazen daylight robbery of the Security National Bank. Arriving in a stolen 1934 Packard, Dillinger and three men entered the bank lobby. All wore turned-down, wide-brimmed felt hats to . . . — — Map (db m192173) HM
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Between 1877 and 1909, Sioux Falls was known as the “Divorce Capital of the Nation.” Lenient residency laws and multiple divorce grounds were available in Dakota Territory and South Dakota. Wealthy men and women from . . . — — Map (db m124187) HM
A frontier town such as Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, built almost entirely of wood and surrounded by highly flammable prairie grass could be swiftly consumed by uncontrolled fire. Without protection, farms and towns were vulnerable . . . — — Map (db m184701) HM
Over history the falls have been revered by many different Native American cultures. No formal archaeological digs have been performed at the falls area, but stone tools have been found throughout the region. The area surrounding the falls was . . . — — Map (db m124493) HM
Arriving in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory in 1878, Eliza Tupper Wilkes quickly became one of the community leaders of the small prairie town. She was born Eliza Smith Tupper on October 8, 1844 in Houlton, Maine. As a young woman she . . . — — Map (db m184707) HM
In 1872 Baptist services in Sioux Falls were held sporadically as the number of Baptists was too small to form a congregation. Soon morning services were held on alternate Sundays at Allen's Hall located at the northeast corner of 8th Street and . . . — — Map (db m192221) HM
The birthplace of First Congregational Church was in an abandoned enlisted men's barracks at Fort Dakota, a frontier outpost. The fort closed in 1869. Before its buildings were razed, many newcomers coming to resettle Sioux Falls temporarily lived . . . — — Map (db m192120) HM
Visible to the southeast are the 10th Street Bridge, the Viaduct and the area known as Fawick Park. The bridge and viaduct were originally constructed in 1889 serving as a link between east Sioux Falls and the downtown area. The area to the south of . . . — — Map (db m184846) HM
On September 21st 1920, two Norwegian Lutheran congregations — Grace (14th and Duluth-later purchased by the Jewish congregation of Mt. Zion) and St. Olaf (on the present site of 12th and Dakota) merged — becoming First Lutheran Church. The newly . . . — — Map (db m208646) HM
Floods have been common along the Big Sioux River for hundreds of years. The combination of flat land, heavy snows, and spring rains can be disastrous. One of the most devastating floods occurred in 1881. The winter had been particularly harsh, . . . — — Map (db m124499) HM
In late 1862, as the Civil War raged on in parts of the South, the Great Plains faced a war of their own: a battle between Native Americans and early settlers of the region. As violence escalated in Minnesota, news of the battles and ensuing . . . — — Map (db m194831) HM
On the west side of the River was the site of Fort Dakota. Sioux Falls, initially settled in 1857, was evacuated when the "Dakota War" of 1862 in southwest Minnesota threatened the settlement and remained deserted until Fort Dakota was established . . . — — Map (db m194905) HM
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Residents fled Sioux Falls City, Dakota Territory, after the 1862 slaying of the Amidons. The town site was abandoned until May 5, 1865, when Lt. Col. John Pattee chose this location for Fort Brookings, a new military post.
. . . — — Map (db m124189) HM
To the east of the Rock Island railroad depot is a memorial to the settlers of "Sioux Falls City" who occupied this area between 1857 and 1862. Due to a scare that Indians were about to attack in June of 1858, a sod fortification was constructed . . . — — Map (db m184847) HM
In the summer of 1858, a fort was built nearby to defend the early Sioux Falls settlers against the Yankton Sioux Indians. A stand-off ensued.
The Claim
In the fall of 1856, speculators from the Western Town Company claimed a town . . . — — Map (db m192046) HM
The present City Hall sets on the site of Germania Hall, which was razed in 1934. Germania Hall was erected by the Germania Verein following the organization of the society on January 11, 1880. The building was purchased by the city on October 20, . . . — — Map (db m192130) HM
The Great Northern Railway (GNR), once one of the premier railroad systems in the nation, was the dream of entrepreneur James J. Hill. Beginning in 1878 with a small bankrupt St. Paul railroad, Hill developed a huge rail network that he named the . . . — — Map (db m194746) HM
This plaque is dedicated to an outstanding pioneer woman whose efforts helped to develop the religious, educational, civic, and cultural life of the community.
Dr. Josiah L. Phillips brought his wife Hattie to abandoned Fort Dakota in 1870, . . . — — Map (db m192243) HM
This is the site of the earliest documented river crossing, used both by Native American peoples as well as Euro-American pioneers traveling the Yankton Trail. Prior to 1926, below the 9th Street Parking Ramp to the Northwest, a small island divided . . . — — Map (db m184843) HM
At the urging of the Sioux Falls City Council, in March of 1887, Richard F. Pettigrew agreed to build and operate the city's first public transit system. After the city council granted him a franchise, Pettigrew, who was a public-spirited civic . . . — — Map (db m184702) HM
Directly east is the Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot. The Illinois Central, the fourth railroad company to extend its service to Sioux Falls, opened its line and passenger depot in December, 1887. The building became a freight depot after . . . — — Map (db m124587) HM
In the fall of 1856, speculators from the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, claimed a town site at the Falls of the Big Sioux River. The next spring, men joined them from the Dakota Land Company of St. Paul. Together, they founded Sioux Falls . . . — — Map (db m184704) HM
In the 1880s, wheat was among the major crops grown locally, and the need to process the grain locally arose. In 1877, the Cascade Mill purchased water rights and five acres of land on the east side of the Big Sioux River, north of Eighth Street, . . . — — Map (db m124498) HM
This building was constructed in 1910 by the International Harvester Company as a warehouse. The International Harvester Company had formed in 1902 when several large farm machinery companies merged under one management. They needed larger quarters . . . — — Map (db m208674) HM
National Register of Historic Places
Constructed in 1899 (with an addition in 1909) by Jewett Bros. to house their wholesale food business, this building was placed on the National Register in 1983 as part of the Old Courthouse and Warehouse . . . — — Map (db m124497) HM
In 1907 the John Deere plow company built this distributbion headquarters for the upper midwest. This building was designed to service the John Deere dealers throughout the Dakotas. At that time John Deere sold a variety of agricultural products . . . — — Map (db m194673) HM
Josiah L. Phillips, was born in Maine in 1835. He graduated from a Chicago medical school at the age of 21. After moving to Dubuque, Iowa, he joined the Western Town Company. In 1856 it had laid claim to a town site at the falls of the Big Sioux . . . — — Map (db m192218) HM
Early settlers embraced the Big Sioux River for its industrial potential, but the river was also an important recreational amenity
Bring your love to the bridge.
Initial, Attach & Kiss! #sflovelock
The Love Lock Wall
A love . . . — — Map (db m195025) HM
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After the United States declared war against Spain in 1898, Jonas H. Lien enlisted into the First Regiment of the newly formed South Dakota Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was mustered into federal service at Camp Dewey in . . . — — Map (db m124196) HM WM
Although stone may have been a popular building material for many early settlers due to the abundance of quartzite deposits in the region, lumber was still a necessary commodity for the growing community. The prairie itself had little to offer in . . . — — Map (db m194829) HM
In 1902, the Manchester Biscuit Company came to Sioux Falls and built a two-story quartzite building on East Sixth Street. By 1909, the building had expanded to include a third floor and a three-story addition was added to the south. In 1915, the . . . — — Map (db m124638) HM
To the southwest is the Manchester Biscuit Company building. The company was formed in 1902 when Lawrence D. Manchester was persuaded by financial backing from local wholesale grocers to purchase and relocate the Vienna Bakery of Luverne, Minnesota. . . . — — Map (db m194904) HM
In 1902 at age 39, Lawrence Decatur Manchester moved his bakery from Luverne, Minnesota, to a Sioux Falls quartzite building containing one oven. The business thrived when local wholesale grocers agreed to handle the Manchester products exclusively . . . — — Map (db m194936) HM
On May 13, 1912, during a flood of the Big Sioux River, four young Sioux Falls' men steered two crafts, a rowboat and a canoe, over the Cascade Mill dam. Guy Beck and Mat Yost successfully made the descent, but John Meehan and Will Dahl were thrown . . . — — Map (db m194702) HM
Nils A. Boe was born on September 10, 1913 in Baltic. The son of a Norwegian Lutheran minister, he came to Sioux Falls as a child and graduated from Washington High School. Boe earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin, . . . — — Map (db m184706) HM
This official Olympic flagpole was used at Squaw Valley, California in the pageantry ceremonies of the VIII Olympic Winter Games held in February 18-28, 1960.
Walt Disney
Chairman of Pageantry — — Map (db m208650) HM
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On October 2, 1913, the grand opening of the Orpheum Theater at 315 N. Phillips Avenue was a full-dress affair with patrons paying the unheard of price of $5 per seat. First nighters were entertained with a full line-up. . . . — — Map (db m124195) HM
The combination of heavy snowfall and spring rains have been flooding the banks of the Big Sioux River for many years – these destructive events led to levee improvements and the reconstruction of downtown bridges & businesses. . . . — — Map (db m195034) HM
Western Surety Building
P.H. Edmison built the Edmison Block in 1875. A fire destroyed the building in 1889.
The Edmison-Jameson Building, later known as the Minnehaha Building, was a 6-story building designed by Architect Wallace . . . — — Map (db m184832) HM
The realization of a grand vision to restore the natural beauty of our city’s most historic and important landmark
Falls Park is the city’s historic birthplace. The almost mystical allure of the falls has always been a powerful influence. . . . — — Map (db m124588) HM
Train loads of visitors swarmed to Sioux Falls on October 14, 1899, to see the first president ever to visit South Dakota. The city appeared to be “one blaze of national colors.” Hundreds of flags waved, and patriotic bunting stretched “from . . . — — Map (db m124182) HM
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President Woodrow Wilson came to Sioux Falls on September 8, 1919, as part of a 29-city campaign to stump for the Treaty of Versailles, which included the League of Nations. An excited crowd of onlookers cheered the 28th . . . — — Map (db m124172) HM
1.2 billion years ago intense heat and pressure transformed pure quartz sandstone into quartzite rock. The sandstone originated from sand deposited on the floor of an ancient ocean. Later, as glaciers moved across the area, large portions of the . . . — — Map (db m124640) HM
On Sunday, December 5, 1926, the second radio station to be established in Sioux Falls began transmitting programs. Station KSOO, owned and operated by the Sioux Falls Broadcasting Association, was located in Room 626 of the Carpenter Hotel. Offices . . . — — Map (db m192244) HM
On June 21, 1922, on the second floor of this building, WFAT began operation as Sioux Falls' first radio broadcasting station. Charles Norton, a local enthusiast, assembled and was the first to operate the transmitting apparatus owned by the . . . — — Map (db m192245) HM
The Great Dakota Land Boom took place from the late 1870s through the 1880s. This influx of settlers was driven largely by rapid railroad expansion. In 1878, the first rail service arrived in Sioux Falls and by 1888 it had five lines. The population . . . — — Map (db m124641) HM
Manchester Biscuit Company was well known for its Big Sioux Biscuits and other treats, which it continued making until 1961 when the plant in Sioux Falls closed. That same year, Raven Industries purchased the building. Raven Industries was formed in . . . — — Map (db m124639) HM
While the Big Sioux River was primarily of industrial importance to the settlement of Sioux Falls, it also has an equally important history for recreation.
The First Public Report of the Board of Parks Supervisors of 1915-1920 called for . . . — — Map (db m124495) HM
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”If you didn't drink whiskey, play cards, use your fists or otherwise intimidate, you didn't belong in the arena with Frank Pettigrew… a man who came to the Dakotas with nothing but desire, talent and ambition. He pitched his . . . — — Map (db m124226) HM
The depot and bridge located to the east were constructed by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad Co. (the Rock Island Line). This was the third railroad line in Sioux Falls and was established on October 26, 1886. The architectural . . . — — Map (db m184837) HM
Harry Daniel Webster (1880-1912) spent much of his childhood on a farm near Rowena, SD. After attending art school in Philadelphia, PA, he worked to become a nationally acclaimed sculptor.
In 1910 Webster began one of his most well-known works, . . . — — Map (db m192114) HM
On January 5, 1891, Frist Lieutenant Edward W. Casey attempted to reconnoiter a Ghost Dance camp near Pine Ridge Indian Agency in western South Dakota. When Casey was directed to leave, Tasunke-Ota (Plenty Horses), a camp guard, shot and killed him. . . . — — Map (db m192242) HM
Originally part of Minnesota Territory, Sioux Falls City was founded during a time of widespread townsite speculation on the frontier. In 1856 members of the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, arrived at the Falls of the Big . . . — — Map (db m184703) HM
On September 11, 1900, Theodore Roosevelt spoke from a platform at this intersection of Ninth Street and Minnesota Avenue. Thousands turned out for "Roosevelt Day" to see and hear the 41-year-old governor of New York, who was running . . . — — Map (db m184700) HM
In 1862 near this spot, next to a small creek which drained into the Big Sioux River, stood the stone house of Judge Joseph and Mabala Amidon. The house was built of rough quartzite, set with homemade mortar and roofed over with small poles, sod, . . . — — Map (db m192012) HM
Andrew Kuehn built this quartzite building in 1903 for a wholesale grocery distribution center and warehouse. A German, Kuehn came alone to America at age 15 in 1870. After working his way across the midwest, he settled in Sioux Falls in 1900 where . . . — — Map (db m124248) HM
In 1871 W. H. Corson built a hotel on this corner and named it Cataract House. It was an imposing two-story frame structure with fourteen bedchambers and two parlors. Corson proudly advertised his hotel as having "commodious rooms with clean beds . . . — — Map (db m192175) HM
The City of Sioux Falls purchased this land in 1905 to be used as a Farmer's Market. Architect Joseph Schwarz designed the auditorium. Constructed in 1917 for $218,000 it features Art Deco adornment both inside and out. The main floor and three . . . — — Map (db m124193) HM
The Dakota Land Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, arrived in Sioux falls in June of 1857 as part of a "town-planting party" which was progressing from Medary (near Brookings, SD) to Commerce City (Canton) along the Big Sioux River. Because the prime . . . — — Map (db m184841) HM
The Donahoe Clinic began in 1949 with the partnership of two longtime Sioux Falls physicians and surgeons, Drs. Stephen A. Donahoe and Geoffrey I. W. Cottam. The clinic was located on the ninth floor of the National Bank of South Dakota building at . . . — — Map (db m230816) HM
July 6, 1976
This eagle and the two Native American Reliefs located on the north wall of the First Financial Center elevator tower, are sculpted of Indiana Limestone. These sculptures once adorned the entrance to the original First National . . . — — Map (db m208672) HM
Near this site was erected the first school house in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
This tablet placed by Mary Chilton Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1929 — — Map (db m124200) HM
In 1881, in an effort to give the streets of Sioux Falls a more metropolitan appearance, large kerosene lanterns were attached to the top of wooden posts at several intersections. This first street lighting was both primitive and short-lived. Only a . . . — — Map (db m192014) HM
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In 1891, the Unites States Government purchased the southeast corner lot on Phillips Avenue and 12th Street for $8,000 for the construction of a government building. While everyone agreed that the fledgling city of Sioux Falls . . . — — Map (db m124096) HM
Early day justice in Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory, overlooked innocence when gallows were erected near this site for the hanging of Thomas Egan, a pioneer immigrant farmer from County Tipperary in Ireland. Egan settled in Dakota . . . — — Map (db m227957) HM
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
