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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 407 338 SO 028 046 AUTHOR Schoon, Ruth Then and Now: Our Legacy. TITLE Siouxland Heritage Museums, Sioux Falls, SD. INSTITUTION PUB DATE 94 29p.; Color slides not available from EDRS. For related NOTE document, see SO 028 047. Siouxland Heritage Museums, 200 West 6th Street, Sioux AVAILABLE FROM Falls, SD 57104. Non-Classroom (055) Guides PUB TYPE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE Elementary Education; *Heritage Education; Intermediate DESCRIPTORS Grades; *Local History; Middle Schools; *Social Studies; United States History *South Dakota (Sioux Falls) IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT This document was intended for use as a script for a slide show depicting historic images of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It may also function as an independent narrative history of the location. The history of the city from 1802 to the 1990s is presented. Descriptions of the 79 slides are included. (MM) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** 00 fr) O wcr Then and Now: 4.4 Our Legacy © 1994, Sioux land Heritage Museums, Sioux Falls, S.D. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION SIOUXLAND CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as ceived from the person or organization ykra originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND HERITAGE DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY MUSEUMS C# ea TEL KNAIYAU Prepared for SHM by the Then and Now Committee: TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Ruth Schoon Research Writer: Vel Stokke Photographers: Bob Lauer Freda Hosen Editor: Hilda Koch Copywriters: Alice Parks Bev Oliver Staff Liaison: MALE BEST COPY DTP/E2701.PM5 2 y I SLIDE NO. THEN AND NOW: 1--1865 Harpers Weekly OUR LEGACY Moses K. Armstrong drawing of falls 1111 Dakota is a The story of the largest city in South 2--1994 EROS aerial el fascinating one. slide of S.F. U Sioux Falls today, From the bustling activity in 3--'94 street scene have looked it is hard to imagine how the area may But, we do have some clues over 100 years ago. valley This 1802 French map of the Missouri 4--1802 French map River. indicates the location of the Big Sioux of Missouri River valley 111 to the falls The first recorded visit of white men Big Pointer: U of the Sioux was in 1844. Sioux River (sixth "box" from left) 3 C27- 028/WP/027/C27 1;1111 =') Because of the glowing reports in theilaccounts 5-- of this area, a Dubuque, Iowa land company sent Falls of the This Western Town Company out a party in 1856. Big Sioux River. claimed 320 acres upstream or south of the falls upstream Use pointer: In 1857, the on the east side of the river. Dakota Land Company of St. Paul claimed 320 acres downstream or north of the falls on the Downstream same side of the river. C27-028/WP/027/C27 Due to hostility by Native Americans at nearby 6-- Medary, Sioux Falls' first settlers decided to Falls of the build a fort for protection. Big Sioux River This civilian fort stood on the banks of the upper Pointer: Ten-foot high walls of logs and mud were right corner Sioux. built 4 feet thick and were surrounded by a The entire area was a well-fortified ditch. 80-foot square fort with a three-acre fenced The settlers named this grazing area for cattle. Fort Sod. Today an historical marker on Tenth Street between 7--Slide of depot First and Second Avenues designates the location marker of the early sod fort where for six weeks in 1858, thirty-five men and one woman resided in the fort. 5 C27-028/WP/027/C27 3 In 1862, alarmed by the killing of a judge, Joseph 8--Amidon marker Amidon, and his son William presumably by Indians, Dakota Territorial Governor William Jayne ordered the evacuation of settlers to the military fort at Yankton for their safety. Three years later, with the close of the U.S. 9--Fort Dakota, Civil War, the Federal government erected a July 1866. military fort on the banks of the Sioux River in This response to a petition by the settlers. military reservation, which was first called Fort Brookings,later became known as Fort Dakota. It was seven miles wide and ten miles long. However, in 1869, when the fort was abandoned by the Federal government, Sioux Falls had a long way to go. C27-028/WP/027/C27 A young law student from Beloit, Wisconsin, 10--QC Slide No. 13: Richard Pettigrew, came west to earn money as a Young Richard Franklin chain man for a U.S. government survey team. Pettigrew. He was impressed with the area and upon completion of his studies in 1870, he returned to Sioux Falls to He became active in the development of the live. city along with attorney W. W. Brookings, shopkeeper C. K. Howard and doctor Josiah Phillips. In 1889, when South Dakota became a state, 11--1889 RFP photo Pettigrew was one of the first two men from the State of South Dakota elected to the United States He worked tirelessly in those early days Senate. to bring businesses to Sioux Falls and to promote the growth of the city. 7 C27-028/WP/027/C27 5 In 1871, the first Cataract House was built at 12-- This was one of Ninth Street and Phillips Avenue. 1871 Cataract Hotel. the first hotels in Sioux Falls. (The hotel's name emphasized to newcomers the town's proximity to the falls of the Big Sioux River: "Cataract" means "waterfall.") Here we see the beginnings of this frontier town 13-- We are looking in Dakota Territory about 1872. Sioux Falls, ca. 1872. southwest from Seventh Street at the west side of Fort Dakota's barracks building Phillips Avenue. Use pointer to show: Richard is still in use Note the bakery sign! Bakery sign (1) Pettigrew's small land office is one of the first RFP office: 1st (2) buildings south of the barracks. or 2nd roof beyond barracks. 8 C27-028/WP/027/C27 6 This is the same location today. 14--1994 Phillips Because of the Cataract's popularity, a larger and 15-- grander hotel was needed. A brick addition was 1878 Cataract. constructed in 1878 just to the north of the original hotel . . 16 and an entirely new building was put up in 1882 Cataract Hotel. . . . 1882. The original wood frame Cataract Hotel was moved that year into Ninth Street and remained in use From there until the new hotel was completed. there, it was moved to Main Avenue between Eighth and Ninth Streets and became the Sherman Hotel. 9 C27-028/WP/027/C27 7 It was moved again about the turn of the century 17-- It remains there today as a to 120 South Duluth. 120 North Duluth: rooming house. The grander Cataract Hotel, built in 1882 on the 18--ca. 1889 original Ninth and Phillips site was expanded with Exterior of Cataract an additional upper floor about 1889. This hotel was destroyed by fire in 1900. 19--Cataract Fire Slide: The A fourth Cataract was completed in 1901. 20--1901 Cataract Cataract Hotel had always been . . . 10 8 C27-028/WP/027/C27