A number of the earliest towns which were established on the prairie of the upper Midwest disappeared from the map…
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Shortly after 1900 two railroad towns – Evarts and LeBeau – appeared on the east side of the Missouri River…
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This week in History’s Attic Depression Era school dormitories. Tough Times call for tough choices, when living 15 or so…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
A number of the earliest towns which were established on the prairie of the upper Midwest disappeared from the map…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic Wheeler South Dakota’s own Lost City Of Atlantis. Established in the late 1800s along the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
While doing research several weeks ago during that blast of frigid air from the north, I came across a word…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic Outhouses: you had to know this story was going to happen. BUT we are going…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The homesteaders came west to improve their economic status. This was universally the impelling motive in the westward settlement of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Henry Jones (most often just plain “Hank”), the veteran DeGrey postmaster, desired to get into government service. This was at…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Because of the Homestead Act, the public land passed into private hands so quickly that by 1885 all Dakota east…