On 455th Avenue, 0.1 miles north of 287th Street, on the right when traveling north.
The first general store
in Turner County
was erected on this site
in 1875 by
Gus and Carrie Gilbert.
Swan Lake was the county
seat of Turner County
from 1859-1883. — — Map (db m183584) HM
On 287th Street, 0.5 miles east of 454th Street (County Road 33), on the left when traveling east.
This marks the site
of the first school
house in Turner County
1874
This marker erected
by the school children
of Turner County
1935–1936 — — Map (db m183495) HM
On 450th Avenue, 0.4 miles north of 279th Street, on the right when traveling south.
Before Social Security, old age assistance, and other social safety nets, poor farms throughout the United States provided a place for those suffering through desperate times. The Turner County Poor Farm housed primarily aged and disabled men, . . . — — Map (db m183492) HM
On Swan Lake Drive east of 455th Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
November 13, 1866, James C. Bunker and his survey crew reached Swan Lake and surveyed the lands adjacent thereto. The Yankton to Sioux Falls stage road then ran around the west side of the Lake.
In 1869, William W. Aurner and his . . . — — Map (db m183500) HM
