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South Dakota historic markers are our windows to the past. They educate us, they make us curious to investigate, or they provide a nice excuse to take a break and stretch our legs while we read what happened here.

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Image for Chargers Camps ~Cheyenne Agency 1891 - 1959view gallery

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South Dakota Historical MarkersChargers Camps ~Cheyenne Agency 1891 - 1959

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The new location chosen for our Agency "town" was the site of Chief Martin Charger's permanent campsite located at a point midway between the Cheyenne and Moreau rivers on the west bank of the Missouri river.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member MNSearchers

location: South Dakota

date approved: 5/29/2007

last visited: 6/16/2013

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South Dakota Historical MarkersOriginal Site Medicine Rock <== 2.6 miles ==<

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Medicine Rock was a landmark in its day, a sacred rock, a flat 12x20 limestone on a hillside just south of the Little Cheyenne River, with man's and other footprints on it. It is now submerged under 50 feet of water, 125 feet from shore.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/27/2006

last visited: 10/29/2011

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South Dakota Historical MarkersMedicine Rock

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Indians in the area call this huge rock sacred.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 7/24/2007

last visited: 6/16/2013

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South Dakota Historical MarkersSt. Basil Church, Mossman, South Dakota

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Built on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in 1917. Sign erected in 1974.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member NGComets

location: South Dakota

date approved: 9/12/2012

last visited: 6/16/2013

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South Dakota Historical MarkersYou are now on the 100 Meridian

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In the United States, the meridian 100° west of Greenwich passes through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The meridian 100° west of Greenwich forms the eastern border of the Texas panhandle with Oklahoma (which traces its origin to the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819 which settled the border between New Spain and the United States between the Red River and Arkansas River).

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member MNSearchers

location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/14/2007

last visited: 6/16/2013

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South Dakota Historical MarkersSakakawea Historical Marker Plaque & Obelisk -- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, nr Mobridge SD

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The young Shoshone woman from the Big Horn Mountains in Montana that served as guide and interpreter for the Lewis & Clerk Expedition is honored by the Standing Rock Sioux (2001) and the State of South Dakota (1960s) at this meaningful place.

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location: South Dakota

date approved: 7/5/2006

last visited: 2/13/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersTatanka Iyotake aka Sitting Bill ~ 1831 - 1890

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Grave Site atop the Missouri River buttes of the Famous Native American Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake).

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location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/29/2006

last visited: 2/13/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersFool Soldiers Rescue Lake Shetek Captives in 1862

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Fool Soldiers, a band of Native Americans dedicated to peace, thus the name, rescue white capitives of the Eastern Dakota Sioux near Mobridge, SD

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/29/2006

last visited: 6/18/2006

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Mickelson Governors

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The Mickelson Governors of South Dakota.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member MNSearchers

location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/14/2007

last visited: 2/15/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersLewis & Clark with Aricara Indians 9 - 12 October 1804

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Lewis & Clark camped here and counciled with Aricara Indians on the 9th through 12th of October 1804 and again on return from Pacific 21 and 22 August 1806.

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location: South Dakota

date approved: 7/5/2006

last visited: 6/18/2006

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South Dakota Historical MarkersJedediah Smith 1799 - 1831

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For his accomplishments, Jedediah Smith was made Captian of a motley army of trappers, traders, and Indians, an auxiliary to Col. Henry Leavensworth's 6th Infantry.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 7/1/2006

last visited: 2/13/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersYou Are Now on the 100° Meridian

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The 100th Meridian is significant historically.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 7/24/2007

last visited: 7/18/2007

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South Dakota Historical MarkersMentor Graham

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Mentor Graham, the man who taught Abraham Lincoln

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 7/24/2007

last visited: 10/30/2011

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Trip's Only Female -- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Mobridge SD USA

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One of several historical markers at this park across the bridge over the Missouri River from Mobridge ND. The park is on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, at the site of the Jedediah Smith Memorial

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: South Dakota

date approved: 2/13/2023

last visited: 2/15/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Leavenworth Battle -- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, nr Mobridge SD

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One of several historical markers at this park across the bridge over the Missouri River from Mobridge SD. The park is on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, at the site of the Leavenworth Battle

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: South Dakota

date approved: 2/15/2023

last visited: 2/16/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Arikara People -- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, nr Mobridge SD

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One of several historical markers at this park across the bridge over the Missouri River from Mobridge ND. The park is on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: South Dakota

date approved: 2/15/2023

last visited: 2/16/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersNative American Scenic Byway -- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, nr Mobridge SD

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One of several historical markers at this park across the bridge over the Missouri River from Mobridge ND. The park is on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: South Dakota

date approved: 2/17/2023

last visited: 2/17/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Fur Trade -- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, nr Mobridge SD

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One of several historical markers at this park across the bridge over the Missouri River from Mobridge ND. The park is on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: South Dakota

date approved: 2/17/2023

last visited: 2/17/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersJedediah Smith ~ Trapper, Trader, Explorer

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In 1826 General Ashley sold his interests in the Rocky Mountain Fur Co. to Smith, Jackson, and Sublette.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member MNSearchers

location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/14/2007

last visited: 2/13/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersJedediah Smith ~ Missionary Explorer

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Jedediah Smith gained great fame in his short span of years as both frontiersman and explorer. Less emphasis is placed on his religious zeal thogh he was truly a missionary by example.

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location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/14/2007

last visited: 2/13/2023

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South Dakota Historical MarkersOahe Mission School and Chapel ~ 1877

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Structure built in 1877 to serve as Chapel and School for a huge region.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 10/7/2006

last visited: 2/15/2011

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Missouri River Historic Highway ~ Oahe Overlook

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Historic Sites and Activities along the Missouri River from 1804 to the present day.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 6/28/2006

last visited: 9/6/2019

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South Dakota Historical MarkersThe Oahe Dam and Lake

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This huge structure and its lake, which are 200 miles long, will cover a multitude of Historic Sites.

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location: South Dakota

date approved: 5/29/2007

last visited: 9/6/2019

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South Dakota Historical MarkersCentre of Missouri Valley History & Historic Highway

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Half way between the mouth to the source of the Missouri River, was the center of the fur trade for half a century.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 10/8/2006

last visited: 5/27/2007

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South Dakota Historical MarkersSioux Indian Mosaic

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An Arikara was honored by his enemy, the Sioux, with cairn (mound of stones) marked with the Sioux Tribal sign of the turtle.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member plainsdrifter358

location: South Dakota

date approved: 10/7/2006

last visited: 9/6/2019

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