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|  Leslie Jensen Scenic Drive #2
in South Dakota Historical Markers This highway along Fall River is dedicated to Leslie Jensen, the 15th Governor of SD, a native of Hot Springs. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/12/2006 last visited: 7/22/2007 |
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|  Fall River Falls
in South Dakota Historical Markers The eight mile long Fall River, winding through Fall River Canyon after the joining of cold and Hot Brook streams above the city of Hot Springs, tumbles below over an outcropping of sandstone falling about 50 ft to for Fall River Falls. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/13/2006 last visited: 7/22/2007 |
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|  Leslie Jensen Scenic Drive
in South Dakota Historical Markers This highway along Fall River is dedicated to Leslie Jensen. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/11/2006 last visited: 7/22/2007 |
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|  Hot Springs, SD
in South Dakota Historical Markers Tribal Tradition states that as long ago as the 16th century the Fall River Valley and canyon area were seldom without groups of tipis belonging to North American Plains Tribes. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/12/2006 last visited: 7/22/2007 |
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|  Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, SD
in South Dakota Historical Markers Gigantic Mammoths, ancestors of the elephants of today, once roamed freely across the High Plains of North America. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 12/6/2006 last visited: 7/28/2012 |
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|  Battle Mountain
in South Dakota Historical Markers According to tradition, American Indians were stricken with an epidemic known as "fell disease" about the middle of the 16th century that threatened to obliterate the tribes. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 7/17/2007 |
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|  Sandstone Architecture of Hot Springs SD
in South Dakota Historical Markers The site of Hot Springs was occupied before white men ever came to the area by tribal peoples for the curative benefits of the mineral springs. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 6/27/2011 |
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|  Civilian Conservation Camp Corp ~ NP - 1 Custer
in South Dakota Historical Markers Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for young men established in March 1933 during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days in office. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 7/29/2012 |
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|  Jedediah Strong Smith's Route ~~ 1823
in South Dakota Historical Markers He was the first white man in the Black Hills. In 1823 he led a dozen mountainmen from Fort Kiowa to the Yellowstone. His party entered the Black Hills via the old bison trail through Buffalo Gap. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/13/2006 last visited: 12/18/2010 |
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|  Oelrichs
in South Dakota Historical Markers Historical marker commemorating the founding of Town of Oelrichs in southwest South Dakota. posted by: BruceS location: South Dakota date approved: 8/7/2007 last visited: never |
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|  Camp Collier June 1876 ~ June 1877
in South Dakota Historical Markers Camp at the Mouth of Red Canyon, sometimes called Camp Collier , was established at this site in mid june 1876 to protect travelers over the 150 mile Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Road. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/11/2006 last visited: 7/22/2007 |
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|  Siding 7
in South Dakota Historical Markers In early 1890, the Burlington Railroad established Siding 7, three quarters ofa mile up the tracks north from Edgemont. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/11/2006 last visited: 7/17/2007 |
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|  Teddy Roosevelt's Visit to Edgemont
in South Dakota Historical Markers In 1903, Edgemont was host to President Teddy Roosevelt. An old friend from Deadwood, Seth Bullock, arrived with him to Edgemont. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/11/2006 last visited: 7/17/2007 |
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|  Civilian Conservation Camp Corp ~ Camp SP - 3 Custer
in South Dakota Historical Markers The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for young men established in March 1933 during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days in office posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 1/26/2007 |
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|  The Badger Hole
in South Dakota Historical Markers Badger Clark was one of the first and best cowboy poets, and his work is still popular many years after his death. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/4/2006 last visited: 8/15/2007 |
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|  Civilian Conservation Camp Corp ~ Camp F - 11 Custer
in South Dakota Historical Markers The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for young men established in March 1933 during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days in office. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 7/11/2007 |
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|  Campsite of General Custers Expedition ~ August 1 -6 ~ 1874
in South Dakota Historical Markers On July 2, 1874, General George Armstrong Custer started out with a force of 1000 men, 110 wagons, and hundreds of horses, mules and cattle from the vicinity of Ft. Lincoln, Dakota Territory (near present-day Bismarck, N.D.) posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 7/11/2007 |
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|  Civilian Conservation Camp Corp ~ Camp SP-4 Custer
in South Dakota Historical Markers SP-4
4/21/1936 Custer SD
posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/9/2006 last visited: 7/25/2007 |
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|  Civilian Conservation Corp Camp F - 14
in South Dakota Historical Markers The ccc was a federal relief program during 1933 -1942 that gave jobless men work renovating abused lands. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 8/11/2006 last visited: 7/25/2007 |
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|  The Hearst Highway
in South Dakota Historical Markers The Hearst Highway is named for George Hearst who discovered three of the fabled mines of the American West, including the famous Homestake mine. posted by: Hikenutty location: South Dakota date approved: 7/9/2007 last visited: 7/30/2012 |
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|  The Pigtail Bridges
in South Dakota Historical Markers There are multiple of these pigtail bridges on the way south on US16-ALT from Mount Rushmore National Memorial. It is certainly one of the most scenic ways away from the monument. Be sure to look back to see Rushmore framed through the one-lane tunnels. posted by: S5280ft location: South Dakota date approved: 8/16/2006 last visited: 3/6/2013 |
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|  Gutzon Borglum
in South Dakota Historical Markers This South Dakota Historical Marker is located in front of the The Rushmore-Borglum Story museum at 342 Winter Street in Keystone, South Dakota. posted by: brwhiz location: South Dakota date approved: 2/19/2013 last visited: never |
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|  Peter Norbeck 1870 - 1936
in South Dakota Historical Markers Peter Norbeck Overlook, Historic Marker, and Wildlife Preserve on the Custer to Keystone National Byway, US Hwy 16A aka Iron Mountain Road, near Mt. Rushmore National Monument in the Black Hills of SD posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 2/14/2007 last visited: 5/27/2009 |
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|  Sheridan ~ 1875 - 1942
in South Dakota Historical Markers Sheridan, located 1/2 mile NE from this sign is now 30 feet under water. posted by: MNSearchers location: South Dakota date approved: 6/12/2007 last visited: 6/9/2007 |
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|  Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-2 near Horse Creek
in South Dakota Historical Markers CCC Camp F-2 near Horse Creek and Sheridan Lake performed work projects supervised by the USDA Forest Service. posted by: plainsdrifter358 location: South Dakota date approved: 12/24/2006 last visited: 10/1/2006 |
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