Historical Markers and War Memorials in Wall, South Dakota
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Wall is in Jackson County
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Fossils can reveal how animals lived and died, and what their environment was like. Evidence from one of the park's nimravid fossils offers crime-scene clues. The size and location of the holes in the forehead of this fossil match the knife-like . . . — — Map (db m113121) HM
Horses have adapted in North America over millions of years. As woodlands changed to grasslands, the dog-sized, primitive horses gradually evolved into the lineage that led to the modern-day horse.
Mesohippus was the first three-toed . . . — — Map (db m113091) HM
Near Badlands Loop Road (State Highway 240) 0.4 miles east of Sage Creek Rim Road, on the right when traveling east.
Thirty-seven million years ago, the ancient crystalline core of the Black Hills had already been exposed by erosion. The long blue profile of those mountains, visible to the west, looked much as it does now.
About that time, streams flowing . . . — — Map (db m4404) HM
On 195th Avenue, 0.4 miles south of Dillon Pass Road, on the right when traveling south.
The fence in front of you once guarded the Delta-09 Launch Facility which held a Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). During the Cold War, anyone or anything that crossed this fence was in serious trouble. Standing orders meant . . . — — Map (db m66953) HM
On Badlands Loop Road (State Highway 240), on the left when traveling west.
Homesteaders poured into the Badlands when the Milwaukee Railroad completed track through the White River Valley in 1907.
"Visualize if you can," one observer wrote, "a tar paper shack, tent, or dugout on every quarter section of land... . . . — — Map (db m236155) HM
On Badlands Loop Road (State Highway 240) 0.3 miles east of Conata Road (Road 509), on the right when traveling east.
A jungle grew here. Before that, a shallow sea covered the land. Both are gone now, but both left evidence of their passing.
The sea's signature is ammonites, baculites, and clams, pearly fossils entombed in a fossil mud called the Pierre . . . — — Map (db m4399) HM
On Main Street, 0.1 miles south of 4th Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
On this Memorial Day, May 30th, 1939
The Carrol McDonald Post No. 246
Of the American Legion
Erects and Dedicates
This Monument to the Memory of
Those Soldiers who were called
From Wall and Vicinity to
Serve their Country . . . — — Map (db m168856) WM
