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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Canton is the county seat for Lincoln County
Sioux Falls is in Lincoln County
Lincoln County(25) ► ADJACENT TO LINCOLN COUNTY Clay County(44) ► Minnehaha County(320) ► Turner County(7) ► Union County(30) ► Lyon County, Iowa(7) ► Sioux County, Iowa(9) ►
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Deep into the distant years of prehistory, prairie grasses and flowers covered the rolling hills of this region where bison and elk roamed. Woodland animals and birds made their homes along the forested rivers and streams; eagles and hawks . . . — — Map (db m210635) HM
The years 1500 to 1714 were the height of occupation by ancestors of the Omaha/Ponca and Ioway/Otoe. Their villages stretched down both sides of the Big Sioux River for nearly five miles. With 6,000 or more residents at its peak, Blood Run/Good . . . — — Map (db m210634) HM
By approximately 1714, archaeologists and tribal historians believe that Blood Run was abandoned. Using guns and horses, the Sioux had expanded their influence in the region and gained control of the pipestone quarries 60 miles to the north. . . . — — Map (db m210633) HM
In 1858, most of the Yankton Sioux were pushed west of the Missouri River. This move opened their former homeland to Euro-American settlement. While the onset of the Civil War slowed settlement in the region, Euro-American settlers began . . . — — Map (db m210632) HM
For approximately 150 years, this region has been intensively farmed. By clearing rocks from fields and plowing over the mounds, some destruction and erosion of cultural assets occurred. Yet, many farming families also played a role in site . . . — — Map (db m210630) HM
In 1888, the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Company completed their route between Rock Rapids, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Regional residents viewed the railroad's arrival as a sign of progress, but portions of the site . . . — — Map (db m195077) HM
During the 1980s, suburban expansion from Sioux Falls and gravel quarrying in Iowa became two significant threats to Blood Run National Historic Landmark. Concern that the landmark was endangered sparked efforts to preserve the site. Both states . . . — — Map (db m210628) HM
With abundant bison herds and control over the
valuable pipestone quarries 52 miles to the north,
Blood Run/Good Earth was well positioned to
become a trading center. Hides and scapula hoes from
bison were two important products for trade. . . . — — Map (db m204025) HM
Did you know that Good Earth State Park has a limited archery season for deer and turkey hunting? Today's bow hunters are literally walking in the footsteps of Blood Run/Good Earth's earliest residents.
Of course there are some differences . . . — — Map (db m211278) HM
As you look across the Big Sioux River and onto the landscape beyond, imagine clusters of hide-covered lodges and grass-covered mounds atop the terraces above the river. The smoke from village fires curls into the air and carries the scent of . . . — — Map (db m210637) HM
Crowded, cold, and damp would probably describe Even Lommen's birthplace. His parents, Peder and Marit Lommen, came to Lincoln County with three children in the spring of 1870. Even's birth occurred that first winter while the family shared a . . . — — Map (db m211363) HM
Eureka! In 2014, an exciting discovery occurred in the
initial spot identified for the visitor center. Enormous
"images" of mythic beings, called geoglyphs, sit beneath
the upper layer of sod. Ancient peoples left these
mysterious images . . . — — Map (db m204028) HM
If you could step back in time to the year 1700 A.D., one of the most striking changes you'd see would be the immense herds of bison that lived in this area. Between 30 and 60 million bison roamed North America until the mid 1800s. Where did . . . — — Map (db m211280) HM
Naming the first South Dakota state park created in over 40 years was an
important task. Names and titles matter. They hold meanings and stories more significant than the words alone. The park's name would need to define this place while . . . — — Map (db m195078) HM
Sponsors:
Disabled American Veterans,
Sioux Falls
Patron: DAV Member Dale Weir
Dedicated to the honor of all who have been called to the service of our country, often at great personal sacrifice. May this sentry always remind us to . . . — — Map (db m207935) HM WM
Manfred Georg Sigismund Szameit was born in Madüsee, Pomerania, Germany, on September 10, 1936. Three years later, Fuehrer Adolph Hitler ordered Nazi Germany armies to invade Poland. This action greatly worried Manfred's father Heinrich. Concerned . . . — — Map (db m187263) HM
After a strong coalition of civic organizations urged the city to build Falls Park and to set up a City Specification Committee within the Chamber of Commerce, such a study was conducted in 1967-68. The subsequent transformation of the appearance . . . — — Map (db m197452) HM
Beginning in 1873, for four consecutive summers great swarms of grasshoppers riding prevailing winds reached the Midwestern states and territories where they landed and destroyed farmers' field crops. Although several huge clouds of grasshoppers . . . — — Map (db m208637) HM
Long before bridges spanned the Big Sioux River, travelers and settlers forded the river at this location. Pioneer Ole B. Iverson, a Norwegian immigrant, homesteaded here in 1868 and "Iverson Crossing" became a common point of reference and a local . . . — — Map (db m199014) HM
On a cold 1936 New Year's Eve about 160 yards west of this spot, there occurred a dramatic and unlikely attempt to commit murder. At 9:35 p.m. a large powder storehouse exploded. Inside were 310 25-pound kegs of powder, over 3000 pounds of dynamite, . . . — — Map (db m186532) HM
Side A
Since 1872 only one earthquake centered in Minnehaha county has been recorded. A mild quake with an intensity of IV on the Mercalli scale and a magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter scale affected 5000 square miles in this region and 3:37 . . . — — Map (db m133545) HM
USS South Dakota: 17 - 40mm Quad Mounts
Total - 68 Guns
Guns can be operated single fire or
Fully automatic - 120 rounds per minute
Basic gun crew for quad mount:
Mount Capt, Pointer, Trainer,
4-Loaders, 4-Ammunition Passers . . . — — Map (db m146020) HM WM
For several thousand years ancient peoples quarried veins of pure copper in the Lake Superior area. First, they built fires next to exposed raw copper to loosen it from bedrock. Next, they used handheld stone mauls to dislodge chunks of copper that . . . — — Map (db m197252) HM
A Park Born in Controversy
Helen McKennan's will, gifting 20 acres of land for a new park, became the center of intense public debate after her death in 1906. She also gave her home, the former residence of Col. Melvin Grigsby, to be sold to . . . — — Map (db m186530) HM
Side A
During most of the 19th century, few women completed high school
and only daughters of the privileged or well educated had an
opportunity for a higher education. In 1881 seventeen women met
in Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss . . . — — Map (db m97577) HM
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life.
"I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. . . . — — Map (db m112639) HM
About 200 yards southwest of this marker is the location long supposed by historians to be the burial site of Judge Joseph Amidon and his son William, ambushed and killed by Santee Sioux warriors on August 25, 1862. The Sioux war party was under . . . — — Map (db m194668) HM
Captain, U.S. Army, 15th Infantry, 3d Division
Crossing of the Volturno River, Italy, 13 October 1943
G.O. No.: 71, 31 August 1944 Born 20 April 1915, Greenville, Iowa;
Entered service at Toronto, South Dakota
For conspicuous gallantry . . . — — Map (db m208040) HM
(side one)
Settlers arrived in this area in the 1860s. Later they began quarrying its vast deposits of quartzite. East Sioux Falls, a rough-and-tumble quarrymen's town, began in 1887 and flourished for several years. The financial . . . — — Map (db m131971) HM
Banning's Crossing takes its name from brothers Abraham, Richard and David Banning who settled near here on the east side of the Big Sioux River in 1876. The next year Abraham and David built a grist mill to grind locally grown wheat into flour. The . . . — — Map (db m199019) HM
[Marker Front]
On June 7, 1941, Vera Bushfield, wife of the governor of South Dakota, smashed a bottle of champagne against the towering bow of a new battleship and proudly proclaimed, “I christen thee South Dakota!” While an . . . — — Map (db m40516) HM
In the city's early days, the falls attracted both industry and pleasure seekers. During their leisure time, settlers and visitors enjoyed both the falls and Seney Island
The Island, as it was called by early residents, was an oasis for . . . — — Map (db m124198) HM
Sioux Falls based Raven Industries development team led by Ed Yost, under contract with the United States Navy, worked from 1958 through 1960 to develop a self-powered hot air balloon capable of sustained flight. The first flight conducted on Oct. . . . — — Map (db m197448) HM
Following victory in Europe during World War II, the Sioux Falls Army Air Base became a reception center for airmen returning to be redeployed to the war in the Pacific. A twin-engine B-25 bomber, Army 0577, was added to the base fleet. Christened . . . — — Map (db m194613) HM
Mfr - Cramp Shipbuilding Co
Diameter - 17' - 6" Wt - 18.2 Ton
Bu. Eng. Serial No. 6304
USS South Dakota had two - 4 blade
inboard propellers and two - 5 blade
outboard propellers. Thrust from
the four propellers - 130,00 HP . . . — — Map (db m146035) HM
to start to develop new leaves, branches, or flowers
header:
Phillips Ave and 9th Street, looking North, 1886.
Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Decorative
The . . . — — Map (db m199075) HM
At age 11, William F. Cody was forced to find work after his father died. During his colorful life (1846--1917) Cody was a messenger, Pony Express rider, Civil War soldier, army scout, guide, and Indian fighter. He earned his nickname, "Buffalo . . . — — Map (db m206792) HM
Early geologic research into glacial deposits indicated that during the Ice Age there were only four periods of glaciation in North America. Today fourteen episodes of glaciation are recognized. Deposits from five of these episodes are found in . . . — — Map (db m205272) HM
Side 1
Dr. W.H. Over, South Dakota's first archeologist, sketched maps of two 1600s' Omaha earth-hut villages in present-day lower Sherman Park. He also outlined a 51-feet in diameter Omaha dance bowl or circle in the upper park.
. . . — — Map (db m139437) HM
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 17th U.S. Infantry
El Caney, Cuba, 1 July 1898. Date of issue: 21 June 1899
Born Cheyenne Agency, South Dakota
Entered service at Fort D.A. Russell, Wyoming
Gallantly assisted in the rescue of the wounded from . . . — — Map (db m208048) HM
A Sioux quartzite ledge, located near this site on the west bank of the north-flowing Big Sioux River, was known to early residents as Cherry Rock. On scorching hot, sultry summer afternoons the more daring used the outcropping as a platform to leap . . . — — Map (db m199867) HM
Side 1
In the first half of the 20th century, periodic epidemics of polio rattled the nation with waves of critically ill patients, terrified parents, and overwhelmed hospitals. The polio virus attacked the nervous system, causing . . . — — Map (db m101278) HM
Here stood the landmark Children's Home Society of South Dakota (CHS) "house of stone" orphanage, erected in 1901. Designed by Wallace Dow.
CHS began in 1893, operating out of a rented house in central Sioux Falls, as co-founders William and . . . — — Map (db m208676) HM
Melvin Grigsby enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 16. Captured by the Confederates, he was confined in four different prisons, including the infamous Andersonville prison. After escaping in 1865, he joined Gen. W. T. Sherman's army. Later he . . . — — Map (db m186531) HM
Front Columbus College began in 1909 in Chamberlain. S. Dak., and operated there for 12 years. With the inspiration of Bishop Thomas O'Gorman, the all-male prep school, high school, and college were moved to Sioux Falls and reopened in . . . — — Map (db m92174) HM
to break up soil or prepare the land with a tool for planting; to grow a plant or crop
header:
Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 92.8.3]
Stone Cutting Tools . . . — — Map (db m199155) HM
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, volunteer women's service organization. It is dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through . . . — — Map (db m207933) HM
Front Near the beginning of the 19th century two wars were fought in two widely separated Spanish possessions. Men from South Dakota were federal combatants in both conflicts. The 1898 Spanish-American War was fought in Cuba, only 90 miles . . . — — Map (db m92196) HM
to scatter, the natural distribution of seeds, to become widespread
header:Quartzite Quarry
Dell Rapids, 2007.
Quarrying Today
Even though quarry operations have come to an end in East . . . — — Map (db m199076) HM
The Van Demark name is synonymous with orthopedic surgery in South Dakota. Dr. Guy Van Demark (1879-1963) was the first orthopedic surgeon in South Dakota. 'Dr. Guy' and Irene Fisher Coon, R.N., founded the original specialized crippled . . . — — Map (db m123104) HM
E.A. Sherman is recognized as the father of the Sioux Falls park system. To commemorate his work, J.K. Daniels & the Roman Bronze Works of New York was commissioned to create this bronze portrait in 1917. It was rededicated in Honor of the Park . . . — — Map (db m131976) HM
Pioneer archeologist Dr. William H. Over mapped two 1600s' Omaha earth-hut villages located along the nearby banks of the Big Sioux River. He noted that the south village was "a very old site" and that the larger village "lying 500 yds. to the north . . . — — Map (db m197249) HM
to change, to develop gradually to become more advanced and complex
Plant Communities
A plant community is a group of living plant species that all naturally grow together in one location. All the plants in a community share the . . . — — Map (db m199154) HM
to grow well, to be strong and healthy, especially because conditions are right
header:East Sioux Falls
East Sioux Falls, 1890. Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums [SHM 78.35.32]
Pink . . . — — Map (db m199106) HM
to develop leaves, known as foliage
header:
Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 92.8.16]
Saloons
East Sioux Falls was filled with quarrymen that needed an . . . — — Map (db m199153) HM
Side one:
Two "flying classroom" Lockheed twin engine AT-18 medium bombers collided in midair above the Sioux Falls Army Air Force Base December 8, 1944. Three crewmen, four students on board, and three students in a barracks below were . . . — — Map (db m194621) HM
Fort Dakota was established in 1865 at the abandoned Sioux Falls City town site. Regulars of the 22nd U.S. Infantry Regiment were stationed there in 1866. Four men from this regiment died before the fort was closed in 1869. They were buried in the . . . — — Map (db m206795) HM
The President of the United States
in the name of The Congress
takes pleasure in presenting the
Congressional Medal of Honor to
Foss, Joseph Jacob
Captain, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Marine Fighting Squadron 121, 1st Marine . . . — — Map (db m208044) HM
After emigrating from County Donegal, Ireland, Robert and Lillie Foster settled in a sod house about three miles northwest of this marker in late 1872. Six of their nine children shared the small, primitive home. Within months, two of the children . . . — — Map (db m187458) HM
Quartzite is the stone you see revealed throughout Falls Park. Sioux Quartzite is the local name for his stone. It was also called Jasper. Sioux Quartzite provided both the physical and financial base for the city of Sioux Falls.
Quartzite is . . . — — Map (db m124199) HM
to produce fruit; the ripened ovaries containing seeds
header:
Federal Building, originally Post Office and Federal Courthouse.
Architectural
Quartzite stone is used today, as it was in the past, for . . . — — Map (db m199074) HM
to grow from a seed or spore into a new individual
header:
Photo Courtesy of Siouxland Heritage Museums, Sioux Falls, South Dakota [SHM 41.15.20]
Illinois Central Railroad
In 1887, the quarries at East . . . — — Map (db m199157) HM
"He shall swallow up death in victory.....
And this mortal shall put on immortality."
Isaiah 25:8, 1 Corinthians 15:53
Dedicated to all the men and women who have
sacrificed their lives in defense of the United
States of . . . — — Map (db m208153) WM
This monument honors, recognizes and serves Gold Star Families and the legacy of their Loved Ones who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the armed forces of the United States of America.
The Homeland panel depicts images . . . — — Map (db m208037) WM
During the City's early years, a number of industries located at the Falls of the Big Sioux River and used the energy produced by the river's flow to run their machinery.
The Queen Bee Mill and the Sioux Falls Light & Power Company . . . — — Map (db m124191) HM
For more than a century, the educational needs of children in this area have been served by six successive schools. On April 17, 1872, the Wayne Township District No. 10 School Board voted to "build a sod school house." Teacher Elsie Barnes held . . . — — Map (db m222306) HM
An early pioneer and land
speculator in Sioux Falls,
Helen McKennan
recognized a need for
city parks. She donated
her home and 20 acres of
adjacent land in 1906 to
become what is now
known as McKennan Park.
Martin . . . — — Map (db m113432) HM
Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division
Chungehon, Korea, 22 April 1951
Born 1 July 1930, Mena, Arkansas
Entered service at Blackhawk, South Dakota
For conspicuous . . . — — Map (db m208046) HM
The Falls were at the heart of the young city of Sioux Falls — nicknamed the Queen City. The Queen Bee Mill stood at the most powerful point of the Falls and was a center of activity in the 1880s.
The Queen Bee Mill was sited to take full . . . — — Map (db m124190) HM
Enraged over the broken promises of the white man, the Santee Sioux, led by Chief Little Crow, launched the "War of the Outbreak" - or "Dakota War" - in August, 1862, along the Minnesota River. Little Crow ordered White . . . — — Map (db m184699) HM
(side 1)
The changing of global sea levels over millions of years was a major factor in determining the ancient geography of Minnehaha County. Through much of geologic time, salty warm-water seas covered the interior of the United . . . — — Map (db m124175) HM
Orderly Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps,
U.S.S. Ticonderoga
Second battle of Fort Fisher - 13 to 15 January 1865
G.O. No. 59 - 22 June 1865
Born 21 February 1839 - Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Entered service in Pennsylvania
Died 3 November 1900 . . . — — Map (db m208050) HM
After their September 7, 1876, failed attempt to rob a bank at Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse and Frank James separated from the Younger Brothers gang, rode southwest, and entered Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory.
Little direct evidence exists . . . — — Map (db m197202) HM
Lady Liberty first graced McKennan Park in 1942 although the statue was not formally dedicated until August 1, 1943. As several thousand watched, twins Thelma and Elma Iverson unveiled a wood carving of the Statue of Liberty. The statue had been . . . — — Map (db m113437) HM
This stone marks the SW corner of a
Land Grant
by Richard F. Pettigrew and Samuel L. Tate
which assured the building of the
Lutheran Normal School
Dakota Territory • 1889
Augustana College moved to
Sioux Falls and merged with . . . — — Map (db m207103) HM
Lieutenant Colonel (then Major) U.S. Air Force,
357th Tactical Fighter Squadron over North Vietnam, 19 April 1967
Born 14 February 1932, Walnut Grove, MN;
entered service at Walnut Grove, MN
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the . . . — — Map (db m208043) HM
During the American Revolution in 1776, patriots held secret meetings to debate the issues of the day. These meetings were frequently held under the branches of large oak trees called liberty trees. It was there that liberty was born, and where . . . — — Map (db m207931) HM
Side 1
When T.H. Lewis surveyed burial mounds in this area in 1884, he sketched an unusual and puzzling linear or "cigar" shaped mound at this spot. Lying from the southeast to the northwest, it measured 60 by 20 feet and was 1 foot . . . — — Map (db m139854) HM
This bell tower, erected by the PTA in 1968, was constructed from rock salvaged from the original Lowell School built in 1892 and demolished during the summer of 1967.
The bell, once enclosed in the tower of the first Lowell building, is the . . . — — Map (db m207154) HM
(side one)
Almost 1.2 billion years ago molten rock called magma from deep in the Earth flowed up between two adjoining tectonic plates them located under present day eastern Minnesota. Through a process called rifting some magma . . . — — Map (db m133547) HM
Mammoths entered the New World approximately 1.7 million years ago and ranged through this hemisphere until their final extinction occurred at the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) about 10,000 years ago. The mammoth was the largest land mammal that . . . — — Map (db m207104) HM
This radar antenna was removed from the USS South Dakota BB-57 when she was sold for scrap in 1962. For many years it was on display at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C.
Four of these units were originally installed on the South . . . — — Map (db m146014) HM
In late July 1864, members of a uniformed, all-Indian, Yankton Agency scout unit followed the trail of an unknown war party. When the warriors attempted to flee, they were pursued, captured, and taken to the Yankton's camp about one mile north of . . . — — Map (db m194664) HM
This garden is dedicated to the Sioux Falls and regional recipients of the Medal of Honor. The president, in the name of Congress, has awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to our nation's bravest soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast . . . — — Map (db m208038) WM
Memorial to
the Pioneers
of
Minnehaha County
1856 – 1889
Erected by the
Minnehaha County
Historical Society
- 1949 -
The Pioneer Memorial
Honors the early settlers who faced the harsh and lonely . . . — — Map (db m184705) HM
Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army
Troop D, 2d Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division
Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam, 23 March 1971
Born 9 March 1950, Jamestown, North Dakota
Entered service at Jamestown, ND
For conspicuous . . . — — Map (db m208039) HM
Two airplanes from the Sioux Falls Army Air Force Radio Training School collided above this site on December 8, 1944. Ten airmen died. The planes were twin-engined AT-18 medium bombers reconfigured as "flying classrooms." Interiors had been stripped . . . — — Map (db m207939) HM
Following the founding of Sioux Falls City in 1856, a trail was developed on the east side of the Big Sioux River. It linked the tiny village with Sioux City, Iowa. After the Amidon slayings in 1862, Sioux Falls City was abandoned.
In 1865 Lt. . . . — — Map (db m199850) HM
In 1905 a few Sioux Falls men set out for a round of golf on a primitive nine-hole course situated on 40 acres of what was then the southern edge of Sioux Falls — now the McKennan Park area. It was the beginning of the Minnehaha Country Club (MCC), . . . — — Map (db m206781) HM
Following the end of World War II, returning veterans fueled a demand for housing that led to a surge of growth in Sioux Falls' East Side. In 1953 the national Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and First Lutheran Church of Sioux Falls partnered . . . — — Map (db m199752) HM
Created between 1513 and 1515
by Italian Renaissance Master
Michelangelo Buonarroti
(born 1475 and died 1564)
This bronze cast of the original marble sculpture was given to Augustana College and the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota by . . . — — Map (db m207105) HM
Side 1
Pioneer archeologist Dr. W.H. Over recorded that the prehistoric builders of the nearby Sherman Park burial mounds lived in a 10-acre village on a lower terrace south of this location. The village extended west from 26th Street . . . — — Map (db m139822) HM
In late 1873, the young frontier town of Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, population 150, established its first cemetery organization, Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Initially, twenty acres of land were purchased at a location east of town presumed to be . . . — — Map (db m181920) HM
The first effort to establish an airport at this location was undertaken in 1936 by Mayor A. N. Graff, who advocated purchase of 320 acres of Water Department land. On April 16, 1937, the Department of Air Commerce approved the site for a proposed . . . — — Map (db m194625) HM
Sioux Falls took its name from these falls which are located in the Big Sioux River. Surrounded by a sea of grass, the falls were a remarkable discovery for explorers. For the land speculators that followed the explorers, these falls provided an . . . — — Map (db m127423) HM
With reverence, humility, and enormous respect, we honor our soldiers who have lost their lives abroad in the line of duty.
Their courageous acts and personal sacrifice embody the meaning of valor. May this memorial stand as a continual . . . — — Map (db m208034) WM
This garden is a living tribute to all of America's veterans and their families. In silence and respect, this is a place to remember why millions of Americans have fought and died for our liberty and our freedom. Here we renew our promise to fulfill . . . — — Map (db m208149) WM
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