Opie Chambers of Dallas, chairman of the Gregory County branch of the state defense council was headed to what would…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
An amendment to the Constitution authorizing the State of South Dakota to engage in the development and distribution of electric…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Soldiers going back and forth on the Military road running to Fort Thompson and points farther upstream on the east…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton) of August 14, 1896 on page two contained the following headline: “All the “Blind Pigs”…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Just below the South Dakota border in northern Nebraska on the Sunday before Memorial Day in the 1890s, a most…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
On the night of February 26, 1866, James Hogan was lynched at Vermillion. It was one of those cases where…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Silt caused great difficulties for navigators. The sediment that collected on sandbars forced the main channel to change its location…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Most of the improvements carried out by Major Charles R. Suter concentrated on the lower reach of the river between…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
On July 12, 1879, Captain Charles Howell of the Corps of Engineers boarded the steamboat Miner at Sioux City. He…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The first South Dakota newspaper that was digitized containing a story recognizing those men who had served their country as…