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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

We do not know when the first traders and trappers visited this region.  However, we do know that the rivers…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The one-room school still evokes nostalgia in the hearts of folks in this country.  From the very beginning, our history…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

When it was time to start classes in the rural school, which was usually at 9:00 AM, the teacher would…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The fur traders and trappers along the Missouri River understood the importance of their children receiving a good education.  These…

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In the old kerosene days, kerosene was comparatively safe except in the form of vapor mixed with air.  Thus, supplied…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

In Chapter 1 of Genesis we read:  “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.  God saw…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

During the last half of the 1800’s, the land that is now Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas was for the…

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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…

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The Supreme Court deliberated a little more than three weeks before they made a decision in the case involving the…

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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The October 27, 1916 issue of The Mellette County Pioneer informed their readers that Fairfax had withdrawn from the county…

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