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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C2C_dakota-iron-store_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
On this site in March 1910, Bernard Scott Reardon, Sr. and an associate founded the Dakota Iron Store as a wholesale distributor of heavy hardware, farm equipment, and automotive parts and supplies.
In 1975 the corporate name was changed to DaKon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C2B_foundation-of-the-city_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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 ver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C2A_beginning-of-great-changes_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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 citizens …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C29_the-first-school-house-1873_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
1873near this site was erected
The First School House
in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
This tablet placed byMary Chilton Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution1929
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0K_inland-seas_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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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 States.
During…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BZR_the-sioux-quartzite_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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 centur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BZQ_cigar-manufacturing_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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Between 1870 and 1920, Phillips Avenue was the center of a thriving cigar manufacturing industry. An average of four or five small cigar factories operated within a few blocks of this spot. Because the typical smoker consumed three or mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BZN_president-woodrow-wilson_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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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 President's arri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BZG_the-government-building_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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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 needed suc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BZE_the-hanging-of-an-innocent-man_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
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Early day justice 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 in 18…