Many Recreation Advantages Are Offered In City
LOFTUS H. WARD details Huron and Beadle County leisure evolution from early public gatherings to modern supervised programs. He traces community debates, school events, music, dances, and sports, noting the 1966 park creation, 1924 park board formation, and WPA aided summer programs shaping ongoing civic recreation through the 1930s and beyond.
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Huron
Beadie County
Jim River
Lake Byron
Huron Hook and Ladder Company
Robert Fair
Harry Liem
Chamber of Commerce Recreation Committee
Park Board
Huron Park Board
Civi
American Legion
Huron College
Ravine Park Recreation Developments Highlight City Efforts
The Ravine Park Lake and surrounding facilities show extensive city park system growth begun in 1935 with WPA cooperation. A public reading room craft room indoor classes, Red Cross swimming, guarded bathing beaches, and multiple baseball diamonds serve four to five thousand seasonal participants and over sixty thousand daily summer attendances.
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Wisconsin
Red Cross
Ravine’ Park Lake
Ravine Lake
Park Board
WPA
Ravine Park
Fourth Street
Bell Park
American Legion
Boys Recreation League
Fifteenth
Ohio
S. W
Eleventh and
Simmons
McKinley School
Huron
School Board
Chamber of Comerce
Sinterest
Pioneer hardships recalled by Huron fire veteran Finckh
J H Finckh, honored for long service with the Huron fire department since 1888, recalls pioneer life and hardships. He helped build the railroad between Highmore and Pierre and describes Huron when only a pool hall, store, restaurant, saloon, and livery barn existed. He remembers paying 50 cents to sleep in the hayloft of the barn.
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J. H. Finckh
Huron
Mr. Finckh
Highmore
Pierre
Vast Change In Dental Profession Over 60 Years
Dr W F R Whorton traces the evolution of dentistry in Huron from its early practitioners such as G W Girard and F O Sale to modern techniques. He highlights improvements in anesthesia, diagnosis, materials, and prosthetics, noting dentists today rival those in larger cities. The piece honors local pioneers and credits contemporary Huron dentists with high professional standing.
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W. F. R. Whorton
Sale
Huron
The
United States
Chic Sale
F. O. Sale
E. £. Wightman
A. ¥. Sherman
G. W. Girard
Bale
Waile Chie
Dwight
Edna
Virginia
Chic
Lampe
Dr. Sale
Urbana
R. A. Tait
Frank Can=hoo
Tait
Strange Wave
Canada
Miles &. Walton
C. 5. Jones
Huron Bays
B. H. Kerr
Minneapolis
John Key
Jem
J. M. Chambers
Chio
Ringsdorf
Wisconsin
Theeighties
Dentists
Wharton
Wolsey
Huron's First Sewer Known as Great Drain
Huron's first sewer installed in 1883 was called the great drain. It ran 940 feet from the courthouse east to Nebraska Avenue then north to Third Street and east to Kansas Avenue. D C Hall held the contract for about $2,000 with remaining pay in county warrants.
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Uron
Nebraska Avenue
Third Street
Kansas Avenue
D. C. Hall
Hie
Isre Iver
Great Nature Story Of South Dakota Fossil Richlands
A historic overview links South Dakota geologic deposits along White River to a global fossil tale. It traces early man, extinct megafauna, and Archaic cultures across the Dakotas, noting tools from Knife River chert, tribal symbols, ancient observatories, and the shift to agriculture with corn boosting settlement at sites like Ft. Thompson and Pierre.
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South Dakota
White River
Dakotas
Knife River
Asia
Severeuy
jHunter
Fisher
Ft. Thompson
Mitchell
Pierre
Huron
Otto
Turtle Creek
Spink County
Harfield
Huron’s First Brick Bank Built in 1662
The first brick building in Huron, later home to J. W. Campbell’s bank, stood at the southwest corner of Dakota Avenue and Fourth Street. Built by J. C. Hatfield, the brick came from Alexanders brickyard west of the first brick. Other brick sources included a dwelling on Iowa Avenue and the W. A. Jones residence on Fifth Street and Ohio Avenue.
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Oe Lee
J.W. Campbell Bank
Huron
J. W. Campbell's Bank
Dakota Avenue
Fourth Street
Lampe Market Company
J. C. Hatfield
Alexanders
Third Street
Iowa Avenue
W. A. Jones
Fifth Street
Ohio Avenue
Beadle County marker honors mound builders in Ravine Park
Beadle County Historical Society placed a marker on a mound at Ravine Park while the county museum displays related implements. The text notes seventeen distinct races across ages in the region, with early French and Spanish explorations mentioning tribes such as the Arikara and Ree along the upper Missouri.
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New World
Yucatan
Guatemala
Mexico
Beadle
Perrin du Lac
Missouri
Verenciye brothers plant plate at White River center
The article notes White River and Ft. Pierre as focal points for a furnada and mentions in 1743 the Verenciye brothers planted a leaden plate there. It references discussions in Pierre about this district being taken for New Frerice.
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White River
Ft. Pierre
Verenciye
Pierre
Safe And Sane Fourth Urged by Police Chief Huntley
Chief Harvey Huntley urged caution for the Fourth of July holiday as thousands gathered for Averys Legion celebrations. He warned of heavy street traffic and noted crowds at the Fair Grounds and Banélwa dance pavilion east of the city, with dances planned for the holiday.
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Huntley
Huroniayitors
Harvey Huntley
Averys Legion
First Cheese Factory Near Huron Opens in South Dakota
The Arston cheese factory near Huron, credited to Frank Holbrook who arrived from New York, was established in 1889. Holbrook retired after the 1901 season due to illness, and a group of farmers operated the plant until a fire in 1904 ended its run.
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Ploheer
Huron
Wow
Frank Holbrook
New York
South Dakota
Holbrook
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Billy Maher
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Maher
Risinger
By M. E. Risinger
City Ice Company
Cc. M
Mayberry
John Deere Organization
John Deere
James River Implement Co
Huron, South Dakota
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