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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24TI_abraham-lincoln_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life. "I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24R1_falls-park-bridge_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
Through the combined efforts of the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Board, the Northern States Power company, and the River Improvement Society (Rise). This bridge is dedicated to the people of Sioux Falls to provide better access to the city's n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24QZ_legacy-of-ice-and-rock_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
The late-Wisconsin Glacier was no ordinary sheet of ice! The glacier was one mile thick and it stretched from eastern Ohio to the Missouri River. It caused North America's most recent Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago. As the glacier pushed south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24QY_hazel-o-connor_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
With a pioneer spirit Hazel O'Connor has continually let the way toward a better Sioux Falls. One of her many special concerns has been the Big Sioux River and the falls, the city's namesake. As a leader of the City Federation of Women's clubs, sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24QX_prison-quarry_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
(Side One) Congress appropriated $30,000 in 1881 for the construction of a prison in Sioux Falls to serve Dakota Territory. In order to finance a building large enough to house up to 150 inmates, the territorial legislature authorized a bond is…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24QK_in-the-name-of-progress_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
"The vast granite walls which have stood for years, rugged and wildly picturesque, a great and inspiring example of the handwork of God, are being smoothed away by the kiss of the hammer and the marvelous power of the explosives". SF Press…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24QJ_artisans-at-the-falls_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
Drake Polishing Works operated on the east bank of the river, across from where you are now standing. Like other industries that located by the falls, it used the flow of the Big Sioux River to run its equipment. Unlike the other industries, Drake…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24OJ_monarch-of-the-plains_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
South Dakota Mahogany Granite - Sculptor Darold E. Bailey - 1999 Herds of Buffalo Roamed the Falls Area in the 1800's The First Sculpture at Falls Park Sioux Falls Sponsors Denny and Char Oviati Freda Horsmann Dawley David Stewart Family…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24OI_the-promise-of-electricity_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
This view of the lower level of the Hydroelectric plant shows the massive pipes that channeled the river's flow to three electric generators. Water entered the plant through the flume at the back of the room and flowed through the large gate valve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24NF_ronald-reagan_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the foot…
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