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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q2K_frederick-manfreds-siouxland_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
This spot is near the center of an area called "Siouxland," so named by writer Frederick F. Manfred (1912-1994). Manfred established a distinct identity for this region, the drainage basin of the Big Sioux River. It includes parts of Iow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PZE_the-dubuque-house_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
The Dubuque House, Sioux Falls' first hotel, was built about 350 yards due west of this spot by Wilmot W. Brookings and members of the Western Town Company of Dubuque, Iowa, in September 1857. In the previous year, they had staked out a 320 acre c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B4A_garretson_Garretson-SD.html
Two events in the 1870s in eastern Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory, provided the stimulus leading to the beginning of the town of Garretson. The first was the founding of the now-vanished village of Palisade, often referred to as Garretson's "M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ATG_1908-palisades-bridge_Garretson-SD.html
In 1908 the Western Bridge and Construction Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, built this Pratt-Through Truss Bridge. Workers fastened beams together with diagonal bracing to create a strong rigid framework. Each beam of a truss bridge shares a portion of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR49_battleship-x_Sioux-Falls-SD.html
[Marker Front] On June 7, 1941, Vera Bushfield, wife of the governor of South Dakota, smashed a bottle of champagne against the towering bow of a new battleship and proudly proclaimed, "I christen thee South Dakota!" While an 80 piece band from Si…