This marker commemorates the service by Huron College to higher education, the Church, and the people of South Dakota, 1883 - 1984 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — — Map (db m178931) HM
In 1880 Reverend-Doctor Harlan P. Carson, Synodical Missionary for Dakota Territory, arrived from Illinois. In 1886 he established Scotland Academy for pioneering settlers in Bon Homme and surrounding counties to support the two Christian crusades . . . — — Map (db m556) HM
Settlers arriving in the Oakwood area in the late 1870s desired a place to worship and hold prayer meetings. Lake Oakwood proved to be an ideal location for baptisms and to pitch a tent to shelter worshippers from the weather. As time and finances . . . — — Map (db m179777) HM
The Lake Campbell Lutheran Church was originally the Medary Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Brookings County, Dakota Territory. The congregation was organized June 13, 1870 at the John Thompson home in Sverdrup Township Minnehaha . . . — — Map (db m179962) HM
First United Methodist Church
has been placed on the
NATIONAL REGISTER
OF HISTORIC PLACES
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Built 1904 — — Map (db m131077) HM
(east side)
History
The united Norwegion Luthern church.
In memory of the pioneer members of the Aurland congregation, organized in 1885. Rev Rogne was the first Pastor. The services wer held in homes & school houses until when in . . . — — Map (db m206714) HM
On June 22, 1883 Mrs. Matt (Valborg) Hanhela became the first Finnish settler here to die (in childbirth). She and her infant son were the first to be buried here. Their grave is unmarked and unknown.
Ten acres of land for this cemetery and for . . . — — Map (db m206651) HM
This property
Old Finnish Apostolic
Lutheran Church
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m206650) HM
In the 1930's St. Joseph's Indian School opened the Divine Infant Home on this site. The Divine Infant Home provided care for young infants and preschoolers when no other care was available.
The former Divine Infant Home was also a part of the . . . — — Map (db m242610) HM
Fr. Henry Hogebach – Founder
Fr. Henry Hogebach, SCJ, founded St. Joseph's Indian School in 1927. He devoted his life to the care and education of Native American children. His vision, patience and perseverance remains alive in our ongoing . . . — — Map (db m242611) HM
Hoffnungstal
EV. Lutheran Church
Eureka, South Dakota
Organized 1888
Disbanded December 31, 1968
Record Depository Zion Am. Lutheran Church
Eureka, South Dakota
Original Church Corner Stone
Ev. Luth. . . . — — Map (db m112049) HM
Martin Marty
1834-1896
First Abbot of St. Meinrad Archabbey, First Bishop of the Dakota Territory, began to visit the Indians in this territory in 1877. He established the first Indian Mission called St. Ann’s Mission of Wheeler, . . . — — Map (db m177442) HM
"You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. . . . The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round . . . — — Map (db m187544) HM
Living under a vast blanket of stars above the Great Plains, Native Americans had an interest in the stars. Stars are believed to be Woniya of Wakan Tanka, "the holy breath of the Great Spirit." Constellations in the night sky . . . — — Map (db m187545) HM
August Bruyer, his wife, Josephine (Simon) and their sons, John and Julius, were born in France, coming to America about the middle of the nineteenth century. By 1858, they had settled in Fairview Township, 4 miles east of what was to be Vermillion. . . . — — Map (db m179897) HM
This stone marks the place where, on the twenty first day of July A.D. 1875, A.L. 5875, the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Dakota, was constituted and the officers installed.
Grand Officers
Thos. H. . . . — — Map (db m179206) HM
The First Baptist Church
Was built in 1889 and 1925.
The Congregation, organized in
1868, is one of the oldest in
South Dakota. The Church
houses a historic Tracker
Pipe Organ.
Has been placed on the
NATIONAL REGISTER . . . — — Map (db m135986) HM
In 1883, the Congregational Church of Star Corner was organized in the James Montgomery home located near the intersection of 456 Avenue and 301 Street, northeast of Wakonda. With the coming of the railroad in 1884, they moved to Wakonda serving . . . — — Map (db m222171) HM
The Dexter Cemetery was started by the early pioneers located in this area in 1899 on land donated by John and Eliza Drake. This was followed by the organization of the United Brethren Church in Christ in 1902 under the supervision of Rev. W.F. . . . — — Map (db m101260) HM
This Parish was established in 1879, the first Catholic Parish within a radius of one hundred miles. The first Mass celebrated June 24, 1879; Centennial Mass celebrated June 24, 1979. — — Map (db m244138) HM
Holy Rosary Cemetery of Kranzburg
God bless America and all the souls buried here in this cemetery and especially the veterans who served their country when called upon, so that we may continue to enjoy our freedom. All gave some and . . . — — Map (db m244135) HM WM
During the early 1880's, a small group of Swedish settlers left their homeland to come to Dakota Territory where they took up homesteads in this vicinity. On September 15, 1883, after holding services and meetings in their homes, they organized "The . . . — — Map (db m180277) HM
This marker commemorates the courage, sacrifice, and faithful devotion of the pioneer families of the Evangelical faith who settled in this vicinity of Duel County, South Dakota. In the early days of settlement, services were held in the homes or . . . — — Map (db m179948) HM
In 1877 some Sisseton Christian Indians sponsored by the Presbyterian Mission, with Daniel Renville as native pastor, decided to take homesteads near Yellowbank Creek north of this point. That year they erected their church, the first in Grant . . . — — Map (db m197527) HM
1893 Die Bethlehem Duetsche Congregational Gerininde Later Bethlehem German Congregational or Stone Church. This was the first deed registered in organized Gregory County. Church grounds were donated by John Hoffman April 8, 1897.
This pioneer . . . — — Map (db m234934) HM
The Dixon, SD town hall was built in 1916 in anticipation of a railroad line that was never built. The building was used for church services, school, and public meetings before it was converted into a silent movie house in the late twenties. The . . . — — Map (db m234975) HM
was established by Brig. Gen. W. S. Harney in 1856 and named by him for Col. Daniel Randall, Deputy Paymaster U.S. Army. Construction was started on June 26, 1856 by 1st Lts. George H. Paige, 2nd Inf. and D.S. Stanley, 1st Cavalry, Col. E. Lee 2nd . . . — — Map (db m188367) HM
People needed more than food and shelter on a frontier fort. In 1875, soldiers of the 1st Infantry built a chapel that included a library and an Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) meeting hall.
Since the chapel was not a military building, . . . — — Map (db m188297) HM
Original Church was purchased from C. B. Hendricks for $250.00
in July 1925. Ira T. and Fredericka Howard deeded property for
the site December 24, 1925. First service was the Christmas
Program held Christmas Day 1925. April 18, 1926 marked . . . — — Map (db m112902) HM
1881 Settlers from Germany some Bohemia 1st Catholic Church. 1904 St. Liborius Patron Saint Paderborn Germany Complex. Built in 1923 for $30,000. Spanish design from First Missionary Priest. Oblate Priests 1918-1979. Diocesan Priests 1979-1989, . . . — — Map (db m112904) HM
The town of Epiphany came into being between the years 1889-1892 and was named by Bishop Martin Marty. In 1893 Father William Kroeger a Catholic priest and medical doctor established the town of “Kroeger”. He built his own laboratory where he made . . . — — Map (db m179876) HM
The chapel before you did not always sit here above the dam. The Oahe Mission, which operated the Oahe Industrial School boarding school from 1884 to 1914, was built five miles north on Preoria Bottom. The chapel was used for both worship and as a . . . — — Map (db m170497) HM
Stephen Return Riggs became a Missionary to the Sioux in Minnesota in 1837. Thomas L. Riggs was born in 1847 and twenty-five years later was delegated to serve the Teton Sioux on the Missouri. His first Station, Hope, was west of the Missouri, . . . — — Map (db m178666) HM
This huge structure and its lake, 200 miles long, will cover a multitude of Historic Sites. Oahe is a Dacotah (Sioux) Indian word meaning "Something to stand upon," a foundation, and so it was that in 1875 Thomas L. Riggs, Congregational . . . — — Map (db m112897) HM
This marker commemorates the immigration of the first large groups of Swiss, Low German and Hutterian Brethren from Russia to Dakota Territory.
The first group of fifteen families arrived in Yankton on October 17, 1873. However a . . . — — Map (db m182291) HM
In tribute to the pioneer founding fathers and mothers of the faith, who in 1873, on this site founded Johannesthal Reformed Church; and in grateful remembrance of those who worshiped here for 93 years until 1966.
My grace is sufficient for . . . — — Map (db m234938) HM
As a lasting tribute to the memory of Father Pierre Jean De Smet of the Society of Jesus, who for over thirty years offered his life in the service of the Indian people traveling far beyond the Rocky Mountains and sharing with them his deep love of . . . — — Map (db m182757) HM
Erected
in memory of Christian pioneers
and founders of Lake Henry
community and Church
1878 — 1954
And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house–Gen. 28:22
whosoever thou art, enter on this ground with reverence . . . — — Map (db m209487) HM
Beginning in 1883, worship in homes of German immigrant settlers
Organized July 13, 1895
Founding Pastor J. Hansen
Pioneer Members
August Albrecht
Carl Albrecht
Ferdinand L. Albrecht
William Albrecht
Herman Eick
Karl . . . — — Map (db m182754) HM
Organized as Emmanuel in 1882
Reorganized as St. Paul
April 17, 1898
Located on present church site
O. I. Satre, Founding Pastor
Charter Members
O. I. Satre
Karel Dahl
B. Christopherson
C. Bergerson
P. A. Ranklev . . . — — Map (db m182752) HM
Originally Lake Thompson Ev. Lutheran
Organized March 30, 1882
6½ miles S.E. of DeSmet
O. I. Satre, Founding Pastor
Charter Members
John Ekse · Knudt Simonson
Ove Johnson · Ole Berqvan
O. S. Sorsdal · Iver Amundson
Iver . . . — — Map (db m182749) HM
Tread softly, for within the sacred precincts of this simple sanctuary the Holy Spirit moved many of its communicants to significantly serve their God and humanity.
With a membership rarely more than thirty, the core of whom were industrious . . . — — Map (db m205401) HM
Beginning in 1893, the "Emmanuel" served as a church on wheels throughout much of the western United States. Only thirteen total chapel cars were built and commissioned: seven Baptist, three Episcopalian, and three Catholic.
As communities were . . . — — Map (db m205394) HM
Has been entered in the
National Register of Historic Places
By the Heritage Service of the
United States Department of the Interior
Built 1884 — — Map (db m93578) HM
"Deadwood's Sky Pilot." Henry Weston Smith, was born in Ellington, Connecticut, January 110, 1828. At 23 he became a Methodist exhorter. This led to ordination in the Methodist Episcopal church and he served various communities in New England. In . . . — — Map (db m184295) HM
First Mass celebrated May 20, 1877
by Father John Lonergan
1st church building
erected on Williams St.
This present building erected 1936
— — Map (db m121004) HM
In 1877, the first organized Episcopal services were held at the Langrishe Theatre in the mining camp of Deadwood City. From this humble beginning, a determined congregation of men and women established the Protestant Episcopal Society of Deadwood . . . — — Map (db m234771) HM
Lead's Episcopal congregation selected a site for a new church in July of 1896 and work was begun immediately. The Lead Call noted, "A more central and easily accessible location could not have been decided upon and when finished, . . . — — Map (db m121533) HM
This former Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1889 by John Neimi and John Saari, and was located on Lot 11 East Main Street.
It is significant as the only remaining institutional building which marks the history of the Finns in . . . — — Map (db m121532) HM
The Glover House at 11 Glendale Drive, was built in 1899 as a Christmas gift from Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church, to her son George Washington Glover II. At the time of construction, the site was located outside of the city . . . — — Map (db m121481) HM
Augustana was founded as Augustana Seminary in Chicago in 1860 by the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod. The school's purpose was "to educate young men for the holy ministry in the Lutheran church . . . (and) to prepare men for the . . . — — Map (db m183483) HM
Augustana was founded as Augustana Seminary in Chicago in 1860 by the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod. The school's purpose was "to educate young men for the holy ministry in the Lutheran church . . . (and) to prepare men for the . . . — — Map (db m183585) HM
With a military expedition
camped in the vicinity
July 10, & 11th, 1859.
He conducted on Sunday
the first Christian services
on Meade County soil. — — Map (db m172481) HM
Incoming Norwegian pioneers homesteaded in this area in the early 1870s, and many of these newcomers built homes on the high ground overlooking Willow Creek. Some lived in dugout homes carved into hillsides, while others used the tough, thick . . . — — Map (db m205269) HM
A group of emigrants from Sweden gathered in Lockport, Illinois, in the mid-1870s and dispatched N.J. Ronlund to inspect potential farmland near the Swedona settlement in Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory. Upon receiving his favorable report, 33 . . . — — Map (db m205270) HM
From 1906 to 1928 this was the site of Bethania Lutheran Church which is now a part of First Lutheran of Colton
Bethania Charter Members:
Mikkel Aker ·
Peder L. Aker ·
Peter P. Aker ·
Jens M. Berdahl ·
Mrs. Kristi Berge ·
Ole . . . — — Map (db m238357) HM
Unfavorable economic conditions in Sweden in the mid-1800s led many young people to search for a better life in America. In 1873 brothers Ben and Carl Johnson, Halmstad, Sweden, became the first Swedish immigrants to homestead in Benton Township. As . . . — — Map (db m187010) HM
The Little Nidaros Church is a replica of the Old Nidaros Church that was built in 1878 and is now located in Renner. Art Moe was inspired to build a replica as he daily drove past the Old Church on his way to work. Following retirement, Moe worked . . . — — Map (db m187027) HM
The Nidaros Norwegian Lutheran Congregation, the first church in Minnehaha County, was organized by fifty pioneers on August 12, 1868, at the sod home of John and Kirsti Thompson on the west bank of the Big Sioux River about three miles southeast of . . . — — Map (db m187017) HM
Norway Lutheran Church was established by Norwegian-American pioneers on March 23, 1874 in Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory. They met in sod houses, schools and a lean-to until the building was completed. Land, where the church could be seen and . . . — — Map (db m208420) HM
This bell that called the people to worship is placed here to the memory of the men and women who endured the dangers and hardships of pioneer life, and still found time and money to build churches for themselves and for those who should follow . . . — — Map (db m208422) HM
One of the deepest desires of Norwegian immigrants who settled in this area of the Slip-Up Creek was to have a church where they and their children might hear the saving gospel. On December 17, 1873, O. O. Sando, a circuit-riding preacher who served . . . — — Map (db m208419) HM
Relying on their faith in God, on June 6, 1881, a group of 33 German immigrant families met to establish a church under the leadership of Pastor G. Schmidt. These visionary pioneers bought five acres of land from a farmer named Carl Boy for $10 and . . . — — Map (db m212170) HM
Rebuilt 1878 from timbers of wind-wrecked church south from Baltic.
Moved to Baltic 1912.
Moved to Renner 1939.
Oldest church in use in South Dakota. — — Map (db m181290) HM
In 1874 the first Sunday school was held in the crude dugout home of Madison and Elizabeth Webster. The pupils studied directly from the Bible for several years until additional materials were purchased from a traveling missionary. A Methodist . . . — — Map (db m181619) 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
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
The Little Flower orphanage for Catholic children opened at Turton, S.D. in 1924. Eight years later an attic fire raged out of control and destroyed the home. Over the next few years, the more than 60 homeless children were shuttled to makeshift . . . — — Map (db m207156) HM
The Episcopal congregation was initiated in 1878, and the church was built in Parker between the late 1880s and the early 1890s. In 1903 the church was consecrated by Bishop William Hobart Hare. It featured a hand-carved wooden altar. Later, the . . . — — Map (db m244820) HM
All Saints School was founded in 1884 by Bishop William Hobart Hare as an Episcopalian
boarding school for daughters of missionary clergy men and other young women in Dakota Territory. In memory of his late wife and in tribute to all women, he . . . — — Map (db m184709) HM
Since the territorial days of 1870's, Jewish people have played an important role in the social, economic and cultural life of South Dakota. In the 1880's, Sioux Falls experienced an influx of Reformed Jews from Germany, who became some of the . . . — — Map (db m134205) HM
Calvary Cathedral was built through the efforts of William Hobart Hare, early missionary and the first Episcopal bishop in Dakota Territory. He persuaded wealthy capitalist John Jacob Astor, owner of the American Fur Trading Company, to contribute . . . — — Map (db m208649) HM
(side one)
Between 1877 and 1909, Sioux Falls was known as the “Divorce Capital of the Nation.” Lenient residency laws and multiple divorce grounds were available in Dakota Territory and South Dakota. Wealthy men and women from . . . — — Map (db m124187) HM
Arriving in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory in 1878, Eliza Tupper Wilkes quickly became one of the community leaders of the small prairie town. She was born Eliza Smith Tupper on October 8, 1844 in Houlton, Maine. As a young woman she . . . — — Map (db m184707) HM
In 1872 Baptist services in Sioux Falls were held sporadically as the number of Baptists was too small to form a congregation. Soon morning services were held on alternate Sundays at Allen's Hall located at the northeast corner of 8th Street and . . . — — Map (db m192221) HM
The birthplace of First Congregational Church was in an abandoned enlisted men's barracks at Fort Dakota, a frontier outpost. The fort closed in 1869. Before its buildings were razed, many newcomers coming to resettle Sioux Falls temporarily lived . . . — — Map (db m192120) HM
On September 21st 1920, two Norwegian Lutheran congregations — Grace (14th and Duluth-later purchased by the Jewish congregation of Mt. Zion) and St. Olaf (on the present site of 12th and Dakota) merged — becoming First Lutheran Church. The newly . . . — — Map (db m208646) 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
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
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
The Little White Church was built in 1889 of lumber sawed at the mill of the Harney Peak Mining Company which was located four miles east of Hill City on County Road 323. The sawyer was Charlie Clifford; the Chief Carpenter, Joe Hare with three . . . — — Map (db m234793) HM
First German Baptist Church of Corona, South Dakota Organized March 14, 1911 Charter Members Enno & Anna Reiter Enoch & Alida Block Anton & Flora Block Reinhold & Grace Koenigsberg William & Louise Schmidt August Loof William & Wilhelmina Sprung . . . — — Map (db m90545) HM
The first Protestant church organized in Tripp County was located near Dog Ear Lake. The church was first constructed out of sod and later rebuilt with wood in 1916. The church was dedicated to "those who had a vision and laid the cornerstone for . . . — — Map (db m235032) HM
Hithero hath the Lord helped us 1SAM.7:12
We are thankful to God for His loving kindness in giving our low and high German speaking forefathers in Russia and Polish Russia vision, courage and provision in time of deep distress to seek religious . . . — — Map (db m233371) HM
The second rude cross erected on that miraculous day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholics & Protestants on an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention in the grasshopper plague, was where you see the large . . . — — Map (db m190124) HM
The Huge wooden cross in the cemetery, replaced the rude one erected on that day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholic & Protestant marchers back to Jefferson, after an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention . . . — — Map (db m180962) HM
The vicinity of Jefferson, even before the organization of Dakota Territory in 1861, was a French-Canadian community and Catholic services were held sporadically prior to the advent of Father Pierre Boucher in 1867. In 1862 a small log building . . . — — Map (db m189898) HM
Rev. S.W. Ingham, a travelling Missionary, in 1861 baptized Minnesota Watson, daughter of Thomas and Adeline Watson, who with A.J. Bell and wife were its earliest members in the Brule Creek community. The Indian War of the Outbreak in August 1862 . . . — — Map (db m189894) HM
Site of
First Norwegian
Lutheran Church
in
Dakota Territory
1868-1938
Charter Members of St. Paul Lutheran Church
Of Aug. 12, 1863
K. P. Ronne
Thomas Olesen Aune
Helge Mathiasen
Ole Oleson
Anders Anderson
Melkjor . . . — — Map (db m190112) HM
Stately church edifices frequently have humble beginnings and so with St. Paul Lutheran Church, one of South Dakota's finest. The humble log church pictured hereon was erected in 1867 by the members of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation . . . — — Map (db m189892) HM
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