250 Years · 50 States · One Historic Milestone
In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled up the Missouri River through what is now...
Read more →The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 guaranteed the Lakota Sioux ownership of the Black Hills a...
Read more →In 1874, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led a military expedition into the Bla...
Read more →South Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, as the 40th state. Settlement...
Read more →On December 29, 1890, U.S. Army soldiers killed approximately 250 to 300 Lakota men, women...
Read more →Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the faces of four American presidents into the grani...
Read more →Badlands National Monument, established in 1939 and later designated as a national park, p...
Read more →In 1948, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began the work of carving a monumental sculpture of t...
Read more →In 1980, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Black Hills had been taken from th...
Read more →Today, South Dakota's economy is anchored by agriculture and tourism, with Mount Rushmore,...
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