South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- Underpinnings For New SD Library Being Drilled.
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota. Office of the State Engineer; Sherer, Frank; Layne Minnesota Company (Minneapolis, Minn.); Welfl Construction Company; Building construction -- United States -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- 131 caissons ranging in depth from 15 to 47 feet will be drilled and filled with concrete for the underpinning of the new state library building.
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- G-Men Arrive to Check Area for Kennedy Trip; Jet-Age White House Visits in Pierre as Reporter Tours President’s Craft
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Air Force One (Presidential aircraft); Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Secret Service (U.S.)
- 2 articles from the Pierre Capital Journal - Oahe1962-08-07#1 is about the preparations made for President John F. Kennedy to attend the Oahe Dam dedication ceremonies. In Oahe1962-08-07#2, a journalist tours Air Force One.
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- SD Highway Safety Plan 2008
- Highways -- South Dakota
- Safety plan for South Dakota highways.
- Test
- SD Highway safety plan 2008
- Test
- Razing of Old Fort Dakota Ended Military Era in City
- South Dakota -- History; Fort Dakota (S.D.); Sioux Falls (S.D.)
- 80 years ago the barracks of Fort Dakota were raized to make room for permanent housing. The destruction of those barracks removed the last reminder of the Indian Wars in Sioux Falls.
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- Tablet Will Mark Site of Fort Dakota
- Fort Dakota (S.D.); Daughters of the American Revolution. Mary Chilton Chapter
- A bronze plaque will be placed on the Hollywood theatre marking the site of the old Fort Dakota barracks.
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- State Library Offers Consultant Service
- Barrett, Buckley; South Dakota State Library
- A consultant was hired to assist South Dakota public libraries.
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- Mammoth found near Mina got stuck in swamp some time ago
- Mammoths -- South Dakota; Mina (S.D.); Keinast Farm (S.D.); Hubbard, George D. (George David), b. 1871; Rothrock, E. P. (Edgar Paul), 1889-1977
- A mammoth discovered on the Keinast farm was probably mired in a swamp “thousands of years ago’.
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- Plat of the Oahe Housing Unit that will rise in Northwest Pierre
- Housing -- South Dakota -- Maps; Oahe Reservoir (S.D.); United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
- A plat map of the Oahe housing unit in Northwest Pierre, including layout of new streets.
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- Prehistoric Lizard Found Near Bonesteel, Given to USD
- Stevenson, Robert E.; Bonesteel (S.D.); University of South Dakota; Tylosaurus; Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- South Dakota
- A prehistoric lizard, Tylasaurus, was discovered at the Harvey cabin north of Bonesteel. Dr. Robert Stevenson visited the site and recovered the petrified remains. The lizard was presented to the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
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- Early South Dakota Fort
- Fort Brule (S.D.); United States. Army. Dakota Territory Cavalry; Iowa Infantry Volunteers, 6th Regiment (1861-1865); South Dakota -- History
- A red granite monument one-half mile west of Richland marks the location of Fort Brule.
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- Engineers Begin Oahe Tunnel
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Melsha, Joe
- A tunnel will be built to determine the condition of the shale beds as part of the preconstruction activities on the Oahe dam.
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- Soldiers And Early Settlers Built Union County Stockade For Protection From Indians
- Fort Brule (S.D.); Stoddard, K.B.; Gore, Mahlon; LaMour, Edward; Watson, Thomas; Fletcher, Julius; South Dakota -- History
- A Turner County pioneer has constructed a miniature model of Fort Brule. The article also provides a history of the fort.
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- Oahe Irrigation Project Prospects To Be Discussed At Meetings Here
- Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- South Dakota; Missouri River Basin Project; Holum, Kenneth; ; McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- ; South Dakota Reclamation and Water Development Association; South Dakota Irrigators...
- A two day meeting held to discuss the Oahe Irrigation project. Senator George McGovern and Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secretary of Interior for Power and Water, to speak.
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- Wandering dinosaur bones back home – Mines museum makes trade
- Edmontosaurus; Denver Museum of Natural History; Princeton University. Museum of Natural History.; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Badlands South Dakota; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Museum of Geology; Bump, James; Horace Twito...
- After 28 years and a four-cornered museum trade, bones of a trachodon are being returned to the Museum at the School of Mines.
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- U.S. Park Service Renews Old Fort
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); United States. Work Projects Administration; South Dakota. Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks
- After gaining jurisdiction of Fort Sisseton, the state park board of South Dakota plans to use restored buildings for the aged and homeless men from Marshall and surrounding counties.
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- Land Acquisition Funds For Oahe Project Expended
- Irrigation -- South Dakota; Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Oahe Irrigation Project; Funkhouser, Preston; United States. Office of Management and Budget
- All land acquisition funds for the Oahe Irrigation project have been expended. Future land purchases will take place over the next three years as funds become available.
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- From the Past: State Archeologist has a trio of jobs
- Sigstad, John; W.H. Over Museum; University of South Dakota; South Dakota. State Archaeological Commission
- An article describing the job John Sigstad as the State Archeologist.
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- Thoen Stone Mute Witness to Early Hills Massacre
- Thoen Stone; Thoen, Louis; Thoen, Ivan; Adams Museum (Deadwood, S.D.)
- An article describing the Thoen Stone, its discovery and plans for a monument at the site.
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- Badlands Ranked as a “Natural Wonder”
- Badlands South Dakota; Badlands National Monument (S.D.); Tourism -- South Dakota
- An article describing the various sites and areas of the Badlands and along the highways leading into the Badlands.
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