The Omaha Daily Bee reported on May 21, 1885 that: “The American buffalo is virtually an extinct animal. There are…
Author: Gregory County Historical Society (page 11)
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The first effort at road building by white men in what would later become Dakota Territory was in 1857. One…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The editors of the Press and Daily Dakotaian in a front-page story on November 29, 1886, informed their readers that…
History’s Attic
You say Corn Palace you automatically think Mitchell the one and only Corn Palace. But not so fast Plankinton had…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The earliest settlers to the Missouri Slope (area on the north side of the Missouri River and close to the…
Ghosts come to life in GCHS’s Cemetery Walk
Local legends tell of ghostly sightings at the IOOF Cemetery in Gregory, such as that of an elderly man wandering…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
It is interesting to note that food on the early frontier was often ignored or overlooked by the writers and…
History’s Attic
Flour mills on the Rosebud. When the Rosebud Country was opened for settlement, many grains were experimented with as to…
History’s Attic
How to make a living as a photographer in the 1930s. Probably the last thing people were looking for…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The organization of the Dakota Territory by the U.S. Congress in the spring of 1861 resulted in attracting wide attention…