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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CM3_south-dakota-railroads_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
South Dakota Railroads. Railroads were economically and socially important in South Dakota. They furthered new settlement, population growth, and community prosperity by recruiting homesteaders and platting townsites. Trains provided passenger tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9W_verendrye-tablet-site_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Here on March 30, 1743, the Verendryes buried a lead tablet to claim this region for France. This tablet found on Feb. 16, 1913, is the first written record of the visit of white men to South Dakota.
Erected by State Historical Society and Ft. Pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9U_translation-of-the-verendrye-plate_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Front
"In the twenty-sixth year of the reign
of Louis XV, the most illustrious Lord,
the Lord Marquis of Beauharnois being Viceroy,
1741, Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye placed this."
Back
Placed by the Chevalier Verendrye
(his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9S_stockgrowers-bank_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Incorporated in 1890, Fort Pierre was an important trade center for ranchers. Opening the Great Sioux Reservation to settlement further enhanced the community's business prospects. The Stockgrowers Bank started in a wooden building, but owners C. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9C_lewis-and-clark-first-sioux-nation-meeting_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Near this spot on September 23-28, 1804, the historic first meeting of officials of the United States of America with the great Sioux Nation took place. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Captains William Clark and Meriwether Lewis to explore…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C53_archaeology-at-fort-pierre-chouteau_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Archaeology is the study of past human cultures. It teaches us about past events and ways of life. Archaeology also reveals how people lived day-to-day and how they dealt with changes in their environment.
Excavation - the exposure, recording, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4N_fur-trade-on-the-upper-missouri-river_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Fur companies made money by bartering trade goods to American Indians and white trappers for furs. The furs were shipped east and sold to make hats and coats. The fur trading posts were near the fur-bearing animals they depended on. They were loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4M_fort-pierre-chouteau-fur-trade-1832-1855_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
The American Fur Company (A.F.C.), John Jacob Astor's enterprise, built Fort Pierre Chouteau in 1832. The fort was named for Pierre Chouteau, Jr., who ran the Western Department of the A.F.C. from St. Louis. The Upper Missouri proved profitable fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4L_fort-pierre-chouteau_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase expanded the United States westward. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and The Corps of Discovery explored the nation's vast new territory on their 1804-1806 journeys. They found an abundance of beaver, buffalo, and ot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C3V_fort-pierre-choteau-trading-post_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
This tabletmarks the site and
commemorates the institutionof
Fort Pierre Choteau Trading Post
chief landmark of fur-trading period,1822 - 1864
on the Upper Missouri River between
the Platte and the Yellowstone.
Founded, 1832, by American Fu…