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The Spearfish Historic Commercial District is a historic district centered on Main Street, Spearfish, South Dakota, United States. It encompasses about 14 acres (5.7 ha) of downtown Spearfish and includes 24 commercial buildings dating back to the late 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Spearfish (Lakota: Hočhápȟe [5]) is a city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 12,193 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the 10th most populous city in South Dakota. [6] Spearfish is the largest city in Lawrence County and the home of Black Hills State University.
US Highway 14a w. Lawrence County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,768, making it the 8th most populous county in South Dakota. [1]
Chester Allan Poage (July 4, 1980 – March 13, 2000) [1] was an American man who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by three men in Spearfish, South Dakota, on March 13, 2000. Elijah Page, Briley Piper, and Darrell Hoadley were convicted of the torture and murder of Poage.
[citation needed] American City was reportedly at the mouth of a long valley leading into Spearfish Canyon, but repeated floods in the area removed all traces of it. [1] Anchor: Lawrence: 1878: This town was in the Ragged Top mining district. Not to be confused with Anchor City. Town possibly took its name from the Balmoral and Anchor group of ...
Approximately $1 million is spent in Spearfish by nonresidents who visited the town because of the hatchery. [3] The Booth Society, a nonprofit group that aims to preserve the hatchery, estimated that in 2011, every tax dollar that supported the hatchery generated $28 for the local community. [11] The hatchery has an annual average of 155,000 ...
Overseeing a furor of construction, Rocha inaugurated the city of La Plata on November 19, 1882, creating the first planned city in South America, and its first with electric lighting. [1] Planned by Pedro Benoit, La Plata's diagonal streets would be anchored by a central plaza, named in honor of Primera Junta statesman Mariano Moreno.
North Spearfish is located in northern Lawrence County at (44.507983, -103.885173), [6] on the northwest side of the city of Spearfish, the largest community in the county Interstate 90 runs along the northern edge of the CDP, with access from Exit 8 (McGuigan Road).