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The museum was ranked number 3 among True West Magazine's 2009 Top 10 Western Museums. [2] The Adams Museum and House won the Organizational Award of 2001. The same year it also won the Governor's Award for History display at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, South Dakota. In 2005, it won the American Association for State and Local ...
There are 16 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in South Dakota, one of which is shared with Iowa and listed by the National Park Service as primarily in that state. They have been designated in 13 of South Dakota's 66 counties. Most are along rivers, long the chief areas of human settlement in this arid place.
Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument, also known as the Roosevelt Friendship Monument or Friendship Tower, [2] located in the Black Hills National Forest on the outskirts of Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota, is a 31-foot stone tower, [3] including the six-foot-high platform, honoring Theodore Roosevelt. It was the first tribute to the ...
Deadwood (Lakota: Owáyasuta; [8] [failed verification] "To approve or confirm things") is a city that serves as county seat of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It was named by early settlers after the dead trees found in its gulch . [ 9 ]
Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset. [1]
Potato Creek Johnny died on February 26, 1943, [9] at the age of about 77, [10] after a two-week illness. His funeral procession on March 3 passed by the Adams Museum, and a bell tolled 77 years, once for each year of his life. [1] He is buried next to Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood. [9] [11]
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Memorial to George Lathrop and the stage route at the rest area in Lusk. The Rawhide Buttes Stage Station, the Running Water Stage Station and the Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route comprise a historic district that commemorates the stage coach route between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Deadwood, South Dakota.