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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls is the county seat for Minnehaha County
Sioux Falls is in Minnehaha County
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To the east of the Rock Island railroad depot is a memorial to the settlers of "Sioux Falls City" who occupied this area between 1857 and 1862. Due to a scare that Indians were about to attack in June of 1858, a sod fortification was constructed . . . — — Map (db m184847) HM
In the summer of 1858, a fort was built nearby to defend the early Sioux Falls settlers against the Yankton Sioux Indians. A stand-off ensued.
The Claim
In the fall of 1856, speculators from the Western Town Company claimed a town . . . — — Map (db m192046) HM
The present City Hall sets on the site of Germania Hall, which was razed in 1934. Germania Hall was erected by the Germania Verein following the organization of the society on January 11, 1880. The building was purchased by the city on October 20, . . . — — Map (db m192130) HM
The Great Northern Railway (GNR), once one of the premier railroad systems in the nation, was the dream of entrepreneur James J. Hill. Beginning in 1878 with a small bankrupt St. Paul railroad, Hill developed a huge rail network that he named the . . . — — Map (db m194746) HM
This plaque is dedicated to an outstanding pioneer woman whose efforts helped to develop the religious, educational, civic, and cultural life of the community.
Dr. Josiah L. Phillips brought his wife Hattie to abandoned Fort Dakota in 1870, . . . — — Map (db m192243) HM
This is the site of the earliest documented river crossing, used both by Native American peoples as well as Euro-American pioneers traveling the Yankton Trail. Prior to 1926, below the 9th Street Parking Ramp to the Northwest, a small island divided . . . — — Map (db m184843) HM
At the urging of the Sioux Falls City Council, in March of 1887, Richard F. Pettigrew agreed to build and operate the city's first public transit system. After the city council granted him a franchise, Pettigrew, who was a public-spirited civic . . . — — Map (db m184702) HM
Directly east is the Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot. The Illinois Central, the fourth railroad company to extend its service to Sioux Falls, opened its line and passenger depot in December, 1887. The building became a freight depot after . . . — — Map (db m124587) HM
In the fall of 1856, speculators from the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, claimed a town site at the Falls of the Big Sioux River. The next spring, men joined them from the Dakota Land Company of St. Paul. Together, they founded Sioux Falls . . . — — Map (db m184704) HM
In the 1880s, wheat was among the major crops grown locally, and the need to process the grain locally arose. In 1877, the Cascade Mill purchased water rights and five acres of land on the east side of the Big Sioux River, north of Eighth Street, . . . — — Map (db m124498) HM
This building was constructed in 1910 by the International Harvester Company as a warehouse. The International Harvester Company had formed in 1902 when several large farm machinery companies merged under one management. They needed larger quarters . . . — — Map (db m208674) HM
National Register of Historic Places
Constructed in 1899 (with an addition in 1909) by Jewett Bros. to house their wholesale food business, this building was placed on the National Register in 1983 as part of the Old Courthouse and Warehouse . . . — — Map (db m124497) HM
In 1907 the John Deere plow company built this distributbion headquarters for the upper midwest. This building was designed to service the John Deere dealers throughout the Dakotas. At that time John Deere sold a variety of agricultural products . . . — — Map (db m194673) HM
Josiah L. Phillips, was born in Maine in 1835. He graduated from a Chicago medical school at the age of 21. After moving to Dubuque, Iowa, he joined the Western Town Company. In 1856 it had laid claim to a town site at the falls of the Big Sioux . . . — — Map (db m192218) HM
Early settlers embraced the Big Sioux River for its industrial potential, but the river was also an important recreational amenity
Bring your love to the bridge.
Initial, Attach & Kiss! #sflovelock
The Love Lock Wall
A love . . . — — Map (db m195025) HM
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After the United States declared war against Spain in 1898, Jonas H. Lien enlisted into the First Regiment of the newly formed South Dakota Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was mustered into federal service at Camp Dewey in . . . — — Map (db m124196) HM WM
Although stone may have been a popular building material for many early settlers due to the abundance of quartzite deposits in the region, lumber was still a necessary commodity for the growing community. The prairie itself had little to offer in . . . — — Map (db m194829) HM
In 1902, the Manchester Biscuit Company came to Sioux Falls and built a two-story quartzite building on East Sixth Street. By 1909, the building had expanded to include a third floor and a three-story addition was added to the south. In 1915, the . . . — — Map (db m124638) HM
To the southwest is the Manchester Biscuit Company building. The company was formed in 1902 when Lawrence D. Manchester was persuaded by financial backing from local wholesale grocers to purchase and relocate the Vienna Bakery of Luverne, Minnesota. . . . — — Map (db m194904) HM
In 1902 at age 39, Lawrence Decatur Manchester moved his bakery from Luverne, Minnesota, to a Sioux Falls quartzite building containing one oven. The business thrived when local wholesale grocers agreed to handle the Manchester products exclusively . . . — — Map (db m194936) HM
On May 13, 1912, during a flood of the Big Sioux River, four young Sioux Falls' men steered two crafts, a rowboat and a canoe, over the Cascade Mill dam. Guy Beck and Mat Yost successfully made the descent, but John Meehan and Will Dahl were thrown . . . — — Map (db m194702) HM
Nils A. Boe was born on September 10, 1913 in Baltic. The son of a Norwegian Lutheran minister, he came to Sioux Falls as a child and graduated from Washington High School. Boe earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin, . . . — — Map (db m184706) HM
This official Olympic flagpole was used at Squaw Valley, California in the pageantry ceremonies of the VIII Olympic Winter Games held in February 18-28, 1960.
Walt Disney
Chairman of Pageantry — — Map (db m208650) HM
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On October 2, 1913, the grand opening of the Orpheum Theater at 315 N. Phillips Avenue was a full-dress affair with patrons paying the unheard of price of $5 per seat. First nighters were entertained with a full line-up. . . . — — Map (db m124195) HM
The combination of heavy snowfall and spring rains have been flooding the banks of the Big Sioux River for many years – these destructive events led to levee improvements and the reconstruction of downtown bridges & businesses. . . . — — Map (db m195034) HM
Western Surety Building
P.H. Edmison built the Edmison Block in 1875. A fire destroyed the building in 1889.
The Edmison-Jameson Building, later known as the Minnehaha Building, was a 6-story building designed by Architect Wallace . . . — — Map (db m184832) HM
The realization of a grand vision to restore the natural beauty of our city’s most historic and important landmark
Falls Park is the city’s historic birthplace. The almost mystical allure of the falls has always been a powerful influence. . . . — — Map (db m124588) HM
Train loads of visitors swarmed to Sioux Falls on October 14, 1899, to see the first president ever to visit South Dakota. The city appeared to be “one blaze of national colors.” Hundreds of flags waved, and patriotic bunting stretched “from . . . — — Map (db m124182) HM
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President Woodrow Wilson came to Sioux Falls on September 8, 1919, as part of a 29-city campaign to stump for the Treaty of Versailles, which included the League of Nations. An excited crowd of onlookers cheered the 28th . . . — — Map (db m124172) HM
1.2 billion years ago intense heat and pressure transformed pure quartz sandstone into quartzite rock. The sandstone originated from sand deposited on the floor of an ancient ocean. Later, as glaciers moved across the area, large portions of the . . . — — Map (db m124640) HM
On Sunday, December 5, 1926, the second radio station to be established in Sioux Falls began transmitting programs. Station KSOO, owned and operated by the Sioux Falls Broadcasting Association, was located in Room 626 of the Carpenter Hotel. Offices . . . — — Map (db m192244) HM
On June 21, 1922, on the second floor of this building, WFAT began operation as Sioux Falls' first radio broadcasting station. Charles Norton, a local enthusiast, assembled and was the first to operate the transmitting apparatus owned by the . . . — — Map (db m192245) HM
The Great Dakota Land Boom took place from the late 1870s through the 1880s. This influx of settlers was driven largely by rapid railroad expansion. In 1878, the first rail service arrived in Sioux Falls and by 1888 it had five lines. The population . . . — — Map (db m124641) HM
Manchester Biscuit Company was well known for its Big Sioux Biscuits and other treats, which it continued making until 1961 when the plant in Sioux Falls closed. That same year, Raven Industries purchased the building. Raven Industries was formed in . . . — — Map (db m124639) HM
While the Big Sioux River was primarily of industrial importance to the settlement of Sioux Falls, it also has an equally important history for recreation.
The First Public Report of the Board of Parks Supervisors of 1915-1920 called for . . . — — Map (db m124495) HM
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”If you didn't drink whiskey, play cards, use your fists or otherwise intimidate, you didn't belong in the arena with Frank Pettigrew… a man who came to the Dakotas with nothing but desire, talent and ambition. He pitched his . . . — — Map (db m124226) HM
The depot and bridge located to the east were constructed by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad Co. (the Rock Island Line). This was the third railroad line in Sioux Falls and was established on October 26, 1886. The architectural . . . — — Map (db m184837) HM
Harry Daniel Webster (1880-1912) spent much of his childhood on a farm near Rowena, SD. After attending art school in Philadelphia, PA, he worked to become a nationally acclaimed sculptor.
In 1910 Webster began one of his most well-known works, . . . — — Map (db m192114) HM
On January 5, 1891, Frist Lieutenant Edward W. Casey attempted to reconnoiter a Ghost Dance camp near Pine Ridge Indian Agency in western South Dakota. When Casey was directed to leave, Tasunke-Ota (Plenty Horses), a camp guard, shot and killed him. . . . — — Map (db m192242) HM
Originally part of Minnesota Territory, Sioux Falls City was founded during a time of widespread townsite speculation on the frontier. In 1856 members of the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, arrived at the Falls of the Big . . . — — Map (db m184703) HM
On September 11, 1900, Theodore Roosevelt spoke from a platform at this intersection of Ninth Street and Minnesota Avenue. Thousands turned out for "Roosevelt Day" to see and hear the 41-year-old governor of New York, who was running . . . — — Map (db m184700) HM
In 1862 near this spot, next to a small creek which drained into the Big Sioux River, stood the stone house of Judge Joseph and Mabala Amidon. The house was built of rough quartzite, set with homemade mortar and roofed over with small poles, sod, . . . — — Map (db m192012) HM
Andrew Kuehn built this quartzite building in 1903 for a wholesale grocery distribution center and warehouse. A German, Kuehn came alone to America at age 15 in 1870. After working his way across the midwest, he settled in Sioux Falls in 1900 where . . . — — Map (db m124248) HM
In 1871 W. H. Corson built a hotel on this corner and named it Cataract House. It was an imposing two-story frame structure with fourteen bedchambers and two parlors. Corson proudly advertised his hotel as having "commodious rooms with clean beds . . . — — Map (db m192175) HM
The City of Sioux Falls purchased this land in 1905 to be used as a Farmer's Market. Architect Joseph Schwarz designed the auditorium. Constructed in 1917 for $218,000 it features Art Deco adornment both inside and out. The main floor and three . . . — — Map (db m124193) HM
The Dakota Land Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, arrived in Sioux falls in June of 1857 as part of a "town-planting party" which was progressing from Medary (near Brookings, SD) to Commerce City (Canton) along the Big Sioux River. Because the prime . . . — — Map (db m184841) HM
The Donahoe Clinic began in 1949 with the partnership of two longtime Sioux Falls physicians and surgeons, Drs. Stephen A. Donahoe and Geoffrey I. W. Cottam. The clinic was located on the ninth floor of the National Bank of South Dakota building at . . . — — Map (db m230816) HM
July 6, 1976
This eagle and the two Native American Reliefs located on the north wall of the First Financial Center elevator tower, are sculpted of Indiana Limestone. These sculptures once adorned the entrance to the original First National . . . — — Map (db m208672) HM
Near this site was erected the first school house in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
This tablet placed by Mary Chilton Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1929 — — Map (db m124200) HM
In 1881, in an effort to give the streets of Sioux Falls a more metropolitan appearance, large kerosene lanterns were attached to the top of wooden posts at several intersections. This first street lighting was both primitive and short-lived. Only a . . . — — Map (db m192014) HM
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In 1891, the Unites States Government purchased the southeast corner lot on Phillips Avenue and 12th Street for $8,000 for the construction of a government building. While everyone agreed that the fledgling city of Sioux Falls . . . — — Map (db m124096) HM
Early day justice in Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory, overlooked innocence when gallows were erected near this site for the hanging of Thomas Egan, a pioneer immigrant farmer from County Tipperary in Ireland. Egan settled in Dakota . . . — — Map (db m227957) HM
This landmark structure was designed by Wallace Dow and built by Andrew C. Phillips in 1891-1892. Phillips, a lawyer and diplomat for the U.S. government, came to Sioux Falls in 1878 and invested in banking and real estate. This brick building with . . . — — Map (db m192230) HM
The Minnehaha County Courthouse was built between 1889-1890. Its architect, Wallace Dow, designed the building in the massive Richardsonian-Romanesque style, using rough quartzite stones to impress upon the public the law's majesty and power. At the . . . — — Map (db m194955) HM
Thomas L. Fawick was born in Sioux Falls and attended school here through the fourth grade. His genius was soon revealed. He became an inventor, and in 1906, at the age of 17, Fawick built a rudimentary two-cylinder auto, the Silent Sioux.
Two . . . — — Map (db m192013) HM
At least three bridges have been built to allow passage over the Big Sioux River in this location, ranging from a single span steel truss structure to a three-span reinforced concrete arch bridge.
By the numbers
Total Bridge Length: . . . — — Map (db m195036) HM
Urban renewal was a movement that provided for the development of aging and underutilized city neighborhoods. During the 1960s, light industry and warehouses had begun to move out of downtown Sioux Falls. The area near Seventh Street and the Big . . . — — Map (db m124496) HM
For most of the 119 years between 1873 and 1992, a majority of Sioux Falls children attended one of three successive public schools erected on this site. The first, an unnamed small wood-frame elementary school, was replaced five years later by . . . — — Map (db m124194) HM
This structure, designed by Wallace Dow, was built in 1890 by Warner E. Willey and his son-in-law, Roy Williams. As owners of the Merchant Hotel immediately to the east, they planned to use the upper levels as overflow hotel rooms and the first . . . — — Map (db m194956) HM
Where We've Been
On February 23, 1905, the first Rotary Club was formed when Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business friends and acquaintances in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Also attending the meeting were Gustave Loehr, . . . — — Map (db m192104) HM
A substantial increase in the number of school age children caused overcrowding at existing city schools and led to the building of Emerson School in 1923. Designed to combine one- and two-story sections, it was completed at a cost of $100,000 and . . . — — Map (db m207157) HM
The First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Sioux Falls had its beginning in November of 1887 when two local attorneys, U. S. G. Cherry, and Sutton E. Young learned that they both had belonged elsewhere to the Christian Church (Disciples of . . . — — Map (db m208642) HM
Missionary Septimus Watson Ingham visited the falls of the Big Sioux River in June 1861 and delivered a sermon to about 20 residents of Sioux Falls City. It was the first Methodist service in the new Dakota Territory. Ten years later, C. V. Booth . . . — — Map (db m208643) HM
On July 23, 1851, at Traverse des Sioux, near present-day St. Peter, Minnesota, 35 Sisseton and Wahpeton chiefs and headmen signed a treaty that had a profound effect on the future Sioux Falls. More than 24 million acres of tribal land, including . . . — — Map (db m198707) HM
Drake Polishing Works operated on the east bank of the river, across from where you are now standing. Like other industries that located by the falls, it used the flow of the Big Sioux River to run its equipment. Unlike the other industries, . . . — — Map (db m112814) HM
Through the combined efforts of the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Board, the Northern States Power company, and the River Improvement Society (Rise). This bridge is dedicated to the people of Sioux Falls to provide better access to the city's . . . — — Map (db m112815) HM
This spot is near the center of an area called “Siouxland,” so named by writer Frederick F. Manfred (1912–1994). Manfred established a distinct identity for this region, the drainage basin of the Big Sioux River. It includes parts . . . — — Map (db m92175) HM
With a pioneer spirit Hazel O'Connor has continually let the way toward a better Sioux Falls. One of her many special concerns has been the Big Sioux River and the falls, the city's namesake. As a leader of the City Federation of Women's clubs, . . . — — Map (db m112819) HM
About 10,000 B.C., as the Wisconsin glacier retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, the first humans came into this region. These nomadic hunters pursued mammoths and other large mammals. Now known as Paleoindians, their spears were tipped with . . . — — Map (db m198702) HM
"The vast granite walls which have stood for years, rugged and wildly picturesque, a great and inspiring example of the handwork of God, are being smoothed away by the kiss of the hammer and the marvelous power of the explosives".
. . . — — Map (db m112813) HM
The late-Wisconsin Glacier was no ordinary sheet of ice! The glacier was one mile thick and it stretched from eastern Ohio to the Missouri River. It caused North America's most recent Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago.
As the glacier pushed . . . — — Map (db m112817) HM
South Dakota Mahogany Granite - Sculptor Darold E. Bailey - 1999
Herds of Buffalo Roamed the Falls Area in the 1800's
The First Sculpture at Falls Park
Sioux Falls Sponsors
Denny and Char Oviati
Freda Horsmann Dawley
David . . . — — Map (db m112687) HM
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Congress appropriated $30,000 in 1881 for the construction of a prison in Sioux Falls to serve Dakota Territory. In order to finance a building large enough to house up to 150 inmates, the territorial legislature . . . — — Map (db m131714) HM
The Dubuque House, Sioux Falls’ first hotel, was built about 350 yards due west of this spot by Wilmot W. Brookings and members of the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, in September 1857. In the previous year, they had staked out a 320 acre . . . — — Map (db m184711) HM
For as long as humans have inhabited this area, they have been attracted by the Falls. Rumors about these falls drew early American explorers. The sound of the Falls could once be heard for several miles around.
The sound, smell and sight of . . . — — Map (db m198704) HM
The Sioux Quartzite, deposited more than a billion years ago, is among the oldest rock exposed in South Dakota. The quartzite and associated pipestone deposits were known to white men as early as 1822, but the American Indian used pipestone . . . — — Map (db m124602) HM
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In 1888, a year after the development of a great deposit of quartzite near Sioux Falls, newly opened quarries delivered stone to pave Philips Avenue, the city's first hard-surfaced street. Paving stones were a vast . . . — — Map (db m131987) HM
Albert M. Mansor was born in Aramta, a tiny village in Lebanon. At the age of 15, he immigrated to Sioux Falls to work in his uncle's East Side grocery store. After his uncle's death, Mansor was urged to liquidate; instead, he remained and worked to . . . — — Map (db m207162) HM
During the summer of 1974, the Sioux Falls School District agreed to launch an innovative elementary program at Irving School. Nancy Plato was chosen "Lead Teacher" and was charged with implementing an alternative school philosophy in a public . . . — — Map (db m222281) HM
Soon after this area was platted in 1889, the city of Sioux Falls installed a community well which was located at this spot. It was a source of water for livestock and household use. Local residents referred to it as the "town pump." Here they hand . . . — — Map (db m184689) HM
In March 1889, several months before South Dakota achieved statehood, Evan B. Meredith, first president of the University of Sioux Falls, platted a future residential community within the northwest boundary of early Sioux Falls. His purpose . . . — — Map (db m184687) HM
In March 1889, several months before South Dakota achieved statehood, Evan B. Meredith, first president of the University of Sioux Falls, platted a future residential community within the northwest boundary of early Sioux Falls. His purpose . . . — — Map (db m184688) HM
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