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In either 1902 or 1903, Lee D. Miller established his funeral home and a livery barn on South Main Avenue in Sioux Falls. In 1923, Miller hired local architectural firm Perkins & McWayne to build a new, larger facility on the property, as Miller had just incorporated two other local funeral homes—Burnside Funeral Home and Joseph Nelson Funeral Home—into his.
The name "Willoughby" presumably comes from the Midwestern town of Willoughby, Ohio, near Cleveland. There are, however, other places with that name in other parts of the United States, including a Willoughby Creek near Great Valley, New York (however, it is located in the southwest part of the state, nowhere near Connecticut or New York City).
This is a list of properties and historic districts in the U.S. state of South Dakota that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The state's more than 1,300 listings are distributed across all of its 66 counties.
The Presentation Children's Home is a historic building at 701 South Western Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Built to replace an earlier orphanage in Turton that burned down, it functioned not only as an orphanage—one of the few in South Dakota—but also as a school from its opening in 1940 to its closure in 1966.
Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset. [1]
Washington County is a former county of South Dakota, existing from 1883 to 1943. The county was mostly within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [1] On July 1, 1943, Washington County was divided and then merged into Jackson County, Pennington County, and Shannon County in 1943 because of financial troubles in South Dakota.
The Odd Fellows Home of Dell Rapids, also known as the I.O.O.F. Home, is a historic Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge and former orphanage in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, with four contributing resources: the main building, a power plant, the front gate, and an apple orchard. [2]
Dust Storms, "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934" Shelterbelts of trees are established in East River to reduce erosion from dust storms. 1935. Flandreau Indian Reservation established per the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. 1936. Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936. Following a severely cold winter, a severe summer heat wave hits ...