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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24WT_historic-madison-ranch_Rapid-City-SD.html
A one time member of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, Madison came to Dakota Territory in 1886 and the history of South Dakota Rodeo began. Russ won the Champion Relay Race in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1907 and then began building his bucking horse …
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By the mid-20th century, water in the West did more than irrigate 160 acre patches of alfalfa. Water flowed as the life blood of cities, private industries, and military bases. Droughts during the 1930s illustrated that Rapid City could not depend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORW_pactola-dam-reservoir_Rapid-City-SD.html
Construction of Pactola Dam began in 1952 and was completed in 1956. At times nearly 200 men worked on the dam. Unskilled workers earned $1.25 an hour and skilled workers $2.75 an hour. The men placed 2,163,251 cubic yards of impervious earthfill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWL_sheridan_Rapid-City-SD.html
Sheridan, located 1/2 mile NE, now 30 feet under water, was named for General Philip Sheridan and founded in 1875 on Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail, as Golden, in the belief that fabulous placer gold existed here. Still Indian Country and everybody a tre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWK_civilian-conservation-corps-camp_Rapid-City-SD.html
Camp F-2 (DF-2) Horse Creek: Located 2 miles W on Horse Creek. Companies: 791—5/22/33-4/30/34 2752—7/30/34-10/21/35 2761—10/25/35-01/36 2748—01/36-5/25/36 The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief program duri…
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Camp F-4: Pactola Campsite inundated by Lake Pactola. Companies: 1789—6/8/33-10/35 2748—5/25/36-1940 The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief program during 1933-1942 that gave jobless men work renovating abused lands. T…
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