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The Pap Madison Cabin is a historic log cabin located in Rapid City, South Dakota, near The Journey Museum and Learning Center. It is the oldest Euro-American building in the Black Hills area. [2] The cabin was built in 1876 by pioneer Rufus 'Pap' Madison using cottonwood found alongside the banks of the nearby Rapid Creek. Madison stayed in ...
Rochford is in the Black Hills just south of the border between Lawrence and Pennington counties; it is located in the latter. Its coordinates are 44°07′28″N 103°43′11″W / 44.1244280°N 103.7196408°W / 44.1244280; -103.7196408
Gold in the Black Hills. South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780985281762. Parker, Watson, ed. (1977). "The Report of Captain John Mix of a Scout to the Black Hills, March-April 1875" (PDF). South Dakota History. 7 (4). South Dakota State Historical Society: 385– 401 "Gordon Stockade". The Wi-Iyohi. 15 (11).
Photo of mine remains at Golden West, South Dakota Gold Hill: Lawrence: According to Parker and Lambert's Black Hills Ghost Towns, the location of Gold Hill was described as being laid out in 1877 on Whitewood Creek, at the mouth of the Reno Creek, about 3 miles (4.8 km) above Kirk. Gopher: Corson: 1918-1940s? Barren
The town was booming by late 1876. About 300 miners lived in the area. A store opened the same year, and in 1877, one of the first post offices in the Black Hills was established. The Black Hills & Western Railroad soon laid tracks to Pactola. [2] The first hotel in the Black Hills, known as the Sherman House, was founded that same year by Sherman.
Dewey is an unincorporated community near the southwest corner of Custer County, South Dakota, United States, less than one mile from the Wyoming border in a prairie region of the Black Hills. [3] [4] There are approximately five or six homes in town. [5] Dewey has a volunteer fire department in the Edgemont city district. [6]