South Dakota State Historical Society Markers (REVISED June 2020) The official South Dakota State Historical Society (SDSHS) marker program began in 1950. State Historian Doane Robinson created the program to erect markers at significant historical locations across the state. At this time, the SDSHS was a public organization and not an official part of state government. Contributions from the SDSHS funded the first markers. Robinson and interested members of the SDSHS identified potential sites and then raised money for the markers. Interested members contributed money both for specific markers and also for those to be purchased at Robinson’s discretion. Funding for these early markers was often a cooperative effort between the SDSHS and interested groups. The Department of Transportation, through its Publicity Division (forerunner of the Department of Tourism), often contributed to the erection of these markers along state highways. State Historian Will Robinson (son of Doane) continued the program reaching out to many local historical societies and civic groups who raised money to purchase markers in their communities. When the SDSHS became a part of state government, the program continued to purchase markers through donations. The marker program has always, and continues to be, primarily funded through private donations with very limited state funds expended on the program. NOTES ON THE MARKERS The marker texts presented below are how they appear on the markers themselves – errors, bad grammar, cultural insensitivities and various spellings included. NOTES ON THIS INVENTORY The markers are listed numerically. There are gaps in the number sequence. Many numbers were historically assigned to small plaques and directional arrows (example: “Marker One Mile Ahead,” that are not text specific to a site. These have not been included. Other markers have gone missing over time and there is no record of them, other than an assigned number in the file. These have not been included because their original text and/or current location are unknown. 1 Table of Contents (with page number) 100th Meridian, 21 Bristol, 54 100th Meridian Map Marker, 13 Brookings, 75 1900 Campaign Whistlestop by T. Roosevelt, 180 Brookings County, First Convention in, 57 1940 DAR Penny Pines Forest, 206 Brookings County, You Are Entering, 146 1st and Only Hanging In Hughes County, 163 Brookings/Kingsbury County, 47 1st Lt. Edward Wanton Casey, 61 Brookings/Moody County, 33 Academy, 30 Brown/Day County, 145 Alcester CCC Camp, 130 Brown County Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, 147 Amateur Baseball, Birthplace in SD, 111 Brown Earth Indian Church, 83 American Creek, 49 Brown Fur Trade Post, 80 American Island, 45 Brown’s, Sam Ride, 94 American Island CCC Camp, 126 Brule City, 28 American Legion BB, 155 Bruyer Church, 93 Amidon Affair, 139 Bulow, William, 122 Among Many Little Trees, 143 Bushfield, Harlan J. & Vera S. Cahalan, 201 Ancient Indian Fortress, 16 Byrne, Honorable Frank M., 75 Ancient Indian Fortress, Directional, 16 * Camp Collier, 104 Ancient River Warren Channel, 145 Camp Pleasant, 85 Anderson, Sigurd, 64 Campbells’ Fur Post, Stood On This Spot, 161 Augustana Academy, Canton, 176 Canton, 14 Aurland Church, 145 Canton Ski Hill, 148 Badger Clark Dakota Home, 71 Catlin Indian Village, 193 Badger Hole, 42 Centennial Time Capsule, 92 Badlands, 51 Center for Missouri Valley History Map, 39 Badus – Pioneer Swiss Colony, 17 Center of South Dakota, 42 Bangor, Monument Marks the Site of, 165 Center of the United States, 51 Battle Mountain, 125 Central South Dakota, Big Map, 7 Beadle, William H.H., 167 Challenger’s Crew, Dedicated to, 151 Bear Butte, 15 Chamberlain, 28 Bear Butte Indian Camp (MatoPaha), 44 Cheyenne River Crossing, 201 Berry, Steven Memorial Roadside Park, 101 Cheyenne River Rest Area, 148 Berry, Tom, 119 Cheyenne River South Fork, 57 Bethlehem Cemetery, 138 Chief Solomon Iron Nation, 202 Big Foot Surrenders, 81 Christ Church, 67 Bijou Hills, 1877, 31 Civil War Monument, 149 Bijou Hills Game Management Area, 113 Clark Centennial Time Capsule, 149 Bismarck to Deadwood Trail, 198 Clark, Men of Who Served in the Great Wars, 163 Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad, 81 Codington County Monument to Spanish American Black Hills Gold Trails, Converging, 112 War Veterans, 159 Black Hills Tragedy, 53 Codington County Veterans WWII, 155 Blue-Star Memorial Highway (Day), 145 Codington County Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 149 Blue-Star Memorial Highway (Walworth), 145 Columbia, 65 Boe, Nils A.: 23rd Governor of South Dakota, 204 Continental Divide, 37 Bon Homme, First School, 152 Continental Divide (Britton), 163 Bon Homme, Replica School, 162 Continental Divide Marker, 10 Bonesteel, Battle of, 22 Cottonwood Creek Roadside Park, 32 Borglum, Gutzon, 103 Council Rock, Indian Capitol of the Dakotas, 108 Borglum Ranch and Studio, 106 Crazy Horse Mountain, 28 Boulder Deposited in the Terminal Moraine, 145 Crow Creek CCC Camp, 138 Brandon, City of, 186 Custer 1874 Trail, 30 Brave Bear Hung Here, 66 Custer’s 7th Cavalry Campsite, 63 Bridgewater, 54 Custer CCC Camp, 137 2 Custer Expedition Campsite May 6-7 1873, 63 Fort Randall Historic Chapel, 8 Custer Expedition Campsite May 7-11 1873, 66 Fort Randall, Plat, 10 Custer Expedition Campsite Aug 1-6 1874, 101 Fort Sisseton, 37 Custer Trail Crossing 1874, 78 Fort Sod, Incident at, 190 Daly Corners, 193 Fort Sully, Old, 22 Day/Brown County, 56 Fort Sully, Old, 41 Day County, First Permanent White Settlers, 78 Fort Thompson Area Map, 153 Day County, You are Entering, 150 Fort Vermillion , 90 Deadwood, 1st Gold Discovery, 109 Fort Wadsworth-Fort Sisseton Map, 79 Deadwood, 2nd Gold Discovery, 110 Foss, Joe: American Hero and Governor. 205 Deadwood Cheyenne Stage Route, 151 Fourteen-Mile House, 92 Death of the Bismarck Trail, 9 French Creek CCC Camp, 129 Dieter School, 151 From Glory to Glory All Saints District, 187 DeSmet, 11 Frontier Log Cabin, 101 DeSmet, Father Pierre Jean, 152 Frost, Todd and Co. Post, 71 Doane Mountain, 7 Frost, Todd and Co. Trading Post, 63 Dolph, 76 Fur Post, First Permanent, 10 Dubuque House, 185 Fur Posts, 29 Dunn, Harvey Birthplace, 43 Gardner, Abbie, 144 Early Western Highway (marker 263/297), 52/61 Garland, Hamlin, 154 East Sioux Falls, 174 Giants in the Earth, 118 Egan, Hanging of an Innocent Man, 144 Glass, Hugh, 83 Elk Point, 88 Glass, Hugh, 154 Elrod, Samuel Harrison, 72 Glass, Hugh Adventurer, 79 Eminija, Minnesota Territory, 179 Gore, Mahlon Claim Shack, 89 Eminija Mounds, 194 Government Building, 173 Epiphany, Town of, 107 Graham, Mentor House, 7 Episcopal Church, 151 Grand Officers, 153 Estes Creek CCC Camp, 131 Grand View, 70 Eureka Area, Honoring the People of, 154 Grasshopper Cross 2.3 Miles, 87 Faith, 58 Grasshopper Cross at Elk Point, 88 Farm Island CCC Camp, 123 Grasshopper Cross at Jefferson, 87 Father of Mount Rushmore, 205 Grier, Thomas Johnson, 165 Fedora Independent Consolidated School District Grindstone Post Office Site, Original, 68 No. 1, 195 Gubbrud, Archie M., 97 Fight at the Mission, 60 Hall, Cleveland T., 149 Firefighers, Early SD, 142 Harney Hospital, 203 Firesteel (marker 539 and 573), 140 & 152 Hartford, Town of, 124 First Dakota National Bank of Yankton, 30 Harris, Jessie G., 156 First Election in the Northwest US, 89 Hartman, 71 First Rural Electric Coop, 119 Hearst Highway, 100 Fisher Grove, 100 Herried, Charles N., 69 Flandreau Christian Indian Community, 26 Herseth, Ralph, 93 Flandreau Indian School, 105 Hiawatha Asylum, 203 Flint Store and Post Office, 171 Highmore, 45 Flour Mill, First in SD, 87 Hill City , 10 Flume, Fabulous, 54 Historic Highway #1-6 Tabor, Avon, Wagner, Fool Soldier Band, 104 Pickstown, 13 Forestburg Roadside Park, 23 Historic Highway Brule, 154 Fort Brule, 153 Historic Highway Buffalo County, 164 Fort Manual, 83 Historic Highway Hughes, 154 Fort Manual 1812, 84 Historic Highway Lyman, 154 Fort Meade CCC Camp, 127 Historic Highway Iona, 26 Fort Pierre, 11 Historic Highway Fort Randall, 13 Fort Pierre Chouteau, 12 Historic Highway Ft. Randall-Ft. Pierre, 38 Fort Randall, Commanding Officer’s Quarters, 12 Historic Highway Marker SD47/US18, 25 3 Historic Highway Marty Mission, 16 Madison, Old First County Seat, 17 Historic Highway Pierre Indian School, 161 Madison, Site of Old County Seat, 17 Historic Highway Struck By the Ree, 13 Mammoth Site, 190 Historic Highway Trudeau Cabin Site, 14 Marshall County, You are Now Entering, 169 History Unfolds, 11 Marten’s Ferry – St. Joseph, 61 Hoecken’s, Father Monument, 152 Martin B-17F Crash, 121 Hole in the Mountain, 19 Marty Mission, 18 Homestead Rest Area, 113 Mass Grave, 53 Horse Creek CCC Marker, 133 Mayo CCC Camp, 136 Hot Springs, 78 Mazakutemani, Little Paul, 74 Hot Springs, SD, 178 McCall, Burial Site Jack, 63 Howard Public Library Marker, 196 McCall, The Hanging of Jack, 62 Hughes County and Library, 196 McCall, The Trial of Jack, 62 Humphrey, General A.A., 153 McClellan, Robert Fur Post, 62 Humphrey, Hubert H. Jr., 154 McFadden, Edgar S., 151 Indian Country, 61 McMaster, William H., 207 Indian Medicine Tree, 76 Meckling and Lincoln, 90 Indian Prayer Rock, 44 Medary, 1st Townsite in Dakota Territory, 158 Ingall’s Homestead, Site of, 12/198 Medary Townsite, 31 Inman Hall, 118 Medicine Creek Rest Area, 158 Ipswich Arch, 167 Medicine Knoll, 159 It Started Here, 110 Medicine Knoll River, 15 Iverson Crossing Road, 189 Medicine Rock, 9 Janklow, Bill Governor, 203 Medicine Rock, Original Site, 99 Jefferson, 88 Mellette House, 120 Jensen, Leslie Scenic Drive, 72 Mennonite and Hutterite Immigrants Memorial