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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BXF_the-queen-bee-mill_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
The Queen Bee Mill, a goliath among mills in early Dakota Territory, once stood tall and proud here on the bank of the Big Sioux River. A large quartzite deposit on the site was used to build an impressive seven-story flour mill.
The building o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM252X_lady-liberty_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
(Side One)
Lady Liberty first graced McKennan Park in 1942 although the statue was not formally dedicated until August 1, 1943. As several thousand watched, twins Thelma and Elma Iverson unveiled a wood carving of the Statue of Liberty. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM252V_pillars-of-the-nation_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
With World War II threatening the tranquility of the United States in 1940, Oscar Ellefson, caretaker and builder of many early McKennan Park attractions, proposed a new project. Ellefson envisioned designing and building two pillars made of stone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM252K_helen-gale-mckennan_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
An early pioneer and land
speculator in Sioux Falls,
Helen McKennan
recognized a need for
city parks. She donated
her home and 20 acres of
adjacent land in 1906 to
become what is now
known as McKennan Park.
Martin Wanserski Sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM252J_sioux-falls-municipal-band_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
On Sunday July 11, 1920, at McKennan Park, several thousand people attended the first concert of the Sioux Falls Municipal Band. A year earlier, in the first city election allowing women to vote, citizens approved a proposal to support a city band…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM251Z_the-city-of-east-sioux-falls_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
From 1887 to about 1913, this area, bordering the Big Sioux River, was the thriving community of East Sioux Falls. The city boasted a hotel, several boarding houses, saloons and retail stores, a town hall, a cricket team, at least three church con…