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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29CS_christ-episcopal-church-and-grier-statue_Lead-SD.html
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, Christ's Episcop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29B8_sweatman-art-memorial-finnish-lutheran-church_Lead-SD.html
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 Lea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29B2_united-states-post-office_Lead-SD.html
Lead's Post Office, which had been located in the Hearst Mercantile Building on North Mill Street since 1897, moved into this imposing structure in 1912.
Congress had appropriated money for the new post office several years earlier, but there …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24WQ_ray-davis-and-the-homestake-experiment_Lead-SD.html
This "ring" is a surviving section of the 100,000-gallon cylindrical tank that Dr. Ray Davis installed at Homestake Mine's 4850 Level in 1965. For three decades, his neutrino experiment at Homestake opened up new windows into the workings of the u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WP_civilian-conservation-corps-camp_Lead-SD.html
Camp F-18 Savoy: located 2 mi W on FH222 at Rod & Gun Camp
Companies: 756 — 5/2/34 -10/15/34;
792 — 5/15/35 - 10/17/35;
792 — October 1940 - July 1941; summer 1941?
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUIJ_preacher-smith-of-deadwood-gulch_Lead-SD.html
"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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNAM_second-deadwood-gold-discovery_Lead-SD.html
Near this point in 1875 occurred the second of two initial gold discoveries in the Deadwood area. It was made by the Lardner party of eight prospectors, steered here by John B. Pearson, a man already familiar with Deadwood Gulch. Their "Discovery …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN7L_the-homestake-gold-mine-and-open-cut_Lead-SD.html
The Homestake lode, the basis for the great Homestake Mining Company, was discovered by Moses Manuel, who, with his brother Fred, had come to the Black Hills in 1875. The two brothers, along with Hank Harney, officially located the claim on April …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN6K_the-open-cut_Lead-SD.html
The Open Cut was once a solid mountain on which Fred and Moses Manuel with Hank Harney located the original Homestake claim on April 9, 1876. It is estimated that up to 14 different mining companies removed 48 million tons of ore and waste from th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN6J_homestake-open-cut-mine_Lead-SD.html
This is Homestake's Open Cut Mine, one of the best known landmarks in the Black Hills. It is the site of the original discovery in 1876 of the Homestake claim, named for "making a man rich enough to make his home stake (enough money to return home…