Histories

County History

This is an interior photograph of the Rapid City Depot.

 

Rapid City Ice Company

1972 Black Hills-Rapid City Flood Revisited (USGS Fact Sheet 037-02)

Brief County History (at Pennington County government Web site)

Badlands Observatory history (at South Dakota Space Grant Consortium)

Black Hills Institute of Geological Research

Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (at their site)

Eastern Pennington County Memories (at SDGenWeb Project Archives) - This is a very rich resource which contains histories of towns, biographies of individuals, and information about businesses, churches, and organizations in the eastern portion of the county.

Earthquake History of South Dakota (at USGS) - Includes several quakes felt in Pennington County

Ellsworth AFB history (at Ellsworth AFB site)

Historic Black Hills Floods (at NWS)

Keystone history

Mount Rushmore Lodge 220 (at their site)

National American University (at their site)

National Weather Service's Rapid City Office History (at NWS)

North Western Warehouse Company History (at their site)

Prairie Edge Trading Company and Galleries (at their site)

Rapid City Flood of 1972: Time Line (at NWS)

Rapid City area history (at Rapid City Area Economic Development) - The history is brief, but they have some interesting photographs of the area throughout history.

Rapid City Fire Department (at Rapid City Government site)

Rapid City history (at Rapid City Convention & Visitors Bureau)

Rapid City Journal (at Lee Enterprises)

St. Martin Monastery - Benedictine Sisters (at their site)

Synagogue of the Hills (at their site)

Wall Drug history (at Wall Drug's Web site)

 

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