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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORW_pactola-dam-reservoir_Rapid-City-SD.html
Construction of Pactola Dam began in 1952 and was completed in 1956. At times nearly 200 men worked on the dam. Unskilled workers earned $1.25 an hour and skilled workers $2.75 an hour. The men placed 2,163,251 cubic yards of impervious earthfill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWL_sheridan_Rapid-City-SD.html
Sheridan, located 1/2 mile NE, now 30 feet under water, was named for General Philip Sheridan and founded in 1875 on Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail, as Golden, in the belief that fabulous placer gold existed here. Still Indian Country and everybody a tre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWK_civilian-conservation-corps-camp_Rapid-City-SD.html
Camp F-2 (DF-2) Horse Creek: Located 2 miles W on Horse Creek. Companies: 791—5/22/33-4/30/34 2752—7/30/34-10/21/35 2761—10/25/35-01/36 2748—01/36-5/25/36
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief program duri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMVZ_hill-city_Hill-City-SD.html
First laid out as a gold camp in February 1876 by Thomas Harvey, John Miller and Hugh McCullough, the rich strikes in the Northern Hills made it a deserted village by May 1876. Its deserted cabins had many transient occupants and the cabin that st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMVY_civilian-conservation-corps-camp_Rapid-City-SD.html
Camp F-4: Pactola Campsite inundated by Lake Pactola. Companies: 1789—6/8/33-10/35 2748—5/25/36-1940
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief program during 1933-1942 that gave jobless men work renovating abused lands. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CK_born-of-volcanos_Wall-SD.html
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 fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CH_jungle-on-a-seabed_Wall-SD.html
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 Shale…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQC_rushmore-workers_Keystone-SD.html
1927-1941
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