Historical Markers and War Memorials in Moody County, South Dakota

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Moody County, South Dakota

1 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Brookings — 608 — Moody County — You are about to enter —

domain of the Dakota (Sioux) Indians, with a trading post, traditionally, at the Great Bend as early as 1763 and Joseph LaFramboise in 1822 and Philander Prescott, 1832-33, certainly had posts there. That portion east of the Big Sioux was ceded by . . . — — Map (db m181270) HM

2 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Colman — 198 — Lake County / Moody County — You are about to enter —

You are about to enter Lake County so named because of its beautiful lakes. It had been the realm of the Dacotah (Sioux) Indians with few white intruders until ceded by the Yankton tribe in 1858. In 1857 the Noble's Trail was built across . . . — — Map (db m208335) HM

3 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Egan — 133 — The Lone Tree —

Here on the Highway, in front of this marker, stood the "Lone Tree" for more than two generations. It was planted, a mere cottonwood seedling, in the hole left by pulling out the original survey stake (surveyed in September 1869 by Levi P. . . . — — Map (db m181287) HM

4 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Egan — Veteran's Memorial Park —

All Gave Some Some Gave All In Honor of All Veterans Past Present and Future — — Map (db m102787) WM

5 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot — Built 1880 – Closed 1967 —

On January 1, 1880 the Southern Minnesota Railroad claimed the $10,000 prize offered by Flandreau businessmen as the first railroad to reach Flandreau. The depot was built that summer on Wind Street. The depot was moved and restored as one of . . . — — Map (db m181281) HM

6 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Dakota Akicita Wokisye / Dakota Soldiers Memorial —

Dakota Akicita Wokisuye De kisuyapo De makoce mitawa De makoce tewahinda Heun ozuye wai Dakota Soldiers Memorial Remember this This is my land I loved my land Therefore I went to . . . — — Map (db m177761) HM WM

7 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Flandreau — April 20, 1969 —

On this day, river stages on the Big Sioux River reached 17.8 feet, 3.6 feet higher than the previous record of 14.2 feet in June 1957. The winter's record snowfall in Eastern South Dakota began melting and pouring into the Big Sioux River. The . . . — — Map (db m208336) HM

8 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — 162 — Flandreau Christian Indian Community —

For a quarter of a century before 1862 and its War of the Indian Outbreak in Minnesota, Santee Sioux had been accepting Christianity. With the killing of over 500 whites by a truculent minority. The government hung 38, imprisoned over 300 at . . . — — Map (db m177447) HM

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9 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — 457 — Flandreau Indian High School —

One hundred years ago Flandreau Indian School had its inception when the federal government appropriated $1,000 for the mission school set up in 1872 by Presbyterian missionaries for Santee Sioux who had homesteaded near Flandreau. The first . . . — — Map (db m181272) HM

10 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — 710 — Governor Bill Janklow —

William John "Bill" Janklow was born in Chicago in 1939. He grew up in Flandreau. After serving in the US Marine Corps, he married Flandreau native Mary Dean Thom. They raised three children: Russell, Pam, and Shonna. After graduating from the . . . — — Map (db m181274) HM

11 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — 590 — In Memory of Mrs. Joseph Thatcher —

One of the captives of the Spirit Lake Massacre, who was drowned while crossing the Big Sioux River, in April 1857, about 300 yards east of this point. — — Map (db m181285) HM

12 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Jones School District #60 — 1886 - 1972 —

Jones School was the last Moody County rural school to close under the state's consolidation plan joining the Flandreau School District in 1972. Located northwest of Flandreau in Spring Creek Township section 19 the school house was built in 1886. . . . — — Map (db m181283) HM

13 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Moody County Veterans Memorial —

Dedicated to all veterans of Moody County to the honor and glory of those who bravely served to keep our country a land of freedom — — Map (db m228115) WM

14 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Riverbend Meeting House — Built 1871 – Restored 1989 —

A 22'x36' wood frame building was erected by the Presbyterian Missions in 1871 in the vicinity of 400 North Crescent Street as a church for the Santee Sioux settlers. Replaced as a church in 1873, it was used as a school and meeting house until 1891 . . . — — Map (db m181277) HM

15 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Wakpaipaksan Okodakiciye — 'River Bend Church' —

Organized by Dakota Indian Presbytery Oct. 3, 1869 with 47 members Name changed in 1879 to First Presbyterian Church Building constructed in 1873 Restoration completed in 2003 The oldest continuously used church in the state of . . . — — Map (db m181262) HM

16 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Flandreau — Waxdahl Claim Shack —

In 1877, a young man named Nels Pederson Waxdahl, originally from Vaksdal, Norway, came to Moody County and built a small sod house in Grovena Township Section 20 in which he lived in for several years. On July 14, 1885, he married Rosina Miller. . . . — — Map (db m181279) HM

17 ► South Dakota, Moody County, Medary — 720 — Hagensick's Resort —

In 1915, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hagensick purchased 14 acres of land here that, in 1917, became Hagensick's Resort. As the automobile gained popularity, thousands of summer fun-seekers sought out the resort. In 1920, it was expanded west of the bridge . . . — — Map (db m181260) HM

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