Historical Markers and War Memorials in Flandreau, South Dakota

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Flandreau, South Dakota

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

On Water Street north of East Pipestone Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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

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

On 481st Avenue (State Highway 13) 0.5 miles north of 229th Street, on the right when traveling north.

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

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

On Water Street north of East Pipestone Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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

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

On State Highway 13, 0.2 miles north of 229th Street, on the right when traveling north.

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

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

On 481st Avenue (State Highway 13) 0.2 miles south of 229th Street, on the right when traveling south.

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

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

On West Community Drive at North 13th Street, on the left when traveling east on West Community Drive.

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

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

On Flandreau Park Road, 0.3 miles north of 230th Street, on the right when traveling north.

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

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

On Water Street north of East Pipestone Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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

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

On Pipestone Avenue (State Highway 32) east of Wind Street, on the right when traveling east.

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

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

On Water Street at East 2nd Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Water Street.

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

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

Near 481st Avenue (State Highway 13) 0.2 miles north of 229th Street, on the right when traveling north.

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

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

On East 2nd Avenue west of Water Street, on the right when traveling east.

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

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