For about the last six months, I have been making an extensive search of maps, documents, diaries, books, and letters…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
One of the major factors influencing the growth and development of South Dakota socially and economically was the opportunity to…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic When Ford Ranchero’s could float. Everyone has a favorite Aunt or Uncle, and us Papousek…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Even before statehood, the Missouri River divided the State of South Dakota and her people into two distinct regions, East…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The first highways into the prairie grasslands of what would later become South Dakota were the rivers used by the…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic The time greed moved a street in Gregory. The time was 1904, and Gregory was…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The military post, Fort Randall, stood along the west bank of the Missouri River in southeastern Gregory County for thirty-six…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic Building a new town. From 1946 to 1949, the Corps Omaha District built Pickstown on…
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…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Shortly after 1900 two railroad towns – Evarts and LeBeau – appeared on the east side of the Missouri River…