On State Highway 34, 0.7 miles west of 405th Ave., on the right when traveling west.
Long before the white man, an Indian Trail from the sanctuary at Pipestone Quarry to the "Three Rivers of the Sioux" near Ft. Thompson passed closely by. The whiteman's first road in Dakota, the Ft. Ridgely & South Pass Wagon Road, forded the James . . . — — Map (db m177446) HM
On South Dakota Route 34, 1 mile east of 405th Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Ruskin Park was synonymous with excitement, entertainment and romance from its inception.
The area's first pioneers settled along the James River near here in 1873. The Santee and Rodee families homesteaded south of here near a large grove . . . — — Map (db m179938) HM
