During the last half of the 1800’s, the land that is now Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas was for the…
Author: Gregory County Historical Society (page 20)
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
We just recently experienced more than one week of frigid and in some cases record setting low temperatures out on…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Supreme Court deliberated a little more than three weeks before they made a decision in the case involving the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The October 27, 1916 issue of The Mellette County Pioneer informed their readers that Fairfax had withdrawn from the county…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
After the General Election of 1912 failed in securing the removal of the county seat from Fairfax, the newspapers were…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
On March 25, 1909, all unclaimed government land in the Gregory County portion of the reservation was placed on sale…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Although Bonesteel contested the location of the county seat for more than nine years with Fairfax, The Mitchell Capital on…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In February of 1906 it was determined that Rural Route No. 1 would be established at Fairfax on April 2. …
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Madison Daily Leader on April 28, 1902 reported that “The building used for a court house in Gregory County,…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
After the Fairfax town site was rejected by the land office in the summer of 1897, the disputed land embraced…