The Hamilton settlement was the next point where a small colony of white settlers made a settlement on Platte Creek,…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Kate Swinney was the first steamboat to be wrecked in the Missouri River within the borders of South Dakota. …
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In Volume III of his “History of Dakota Territory” which was published in 1915, George Kingsbury wrote: “From 1899 to…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
As soon as Jack Sully was shot near his home on the morning of May 16, 1904, a gathering began…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Area newspapers and law enforcement personnel during the later part of the 1800s and the earliest part of the 1900s…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Antoine Bijou, a French Canadian, established a trading post in 1813 on the east side of the Missouri River below…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
“Le Compte Island” was an island on the Charles Mix side of the river between Campbell Creek and Benge Creek. …