by wpx_HistoricPierreFortPierre | Jun 11, 2020 | Fort Pierre
Andy’s Meat Market at 102 N. Deadwood was built in 1907 by Andy Ricketts. Ricketts had purchased equipment from George Mathieson’s meat market (Exchange Meat Market on Main Avenue) in 1907 for his new business on the corner of Deadwood and Main. In 1919, he built a...
by wpx_HistoricPierreFortPierre | Jun 10, 2020 | Fort Pierre
1905 Stanley County Jail. Fort Pierre, South Dakota After Fort Pierre won the county seat, in 1890, the county rented office space and then built a small building/hall. In 1907, they decided to build a new brick courthouse (concrete walls are 8” thick) on the corner...
by wpx_HistoricPierreFortPierre | Dec 19, 2018 | Fort Pierre
The History of St. Mary’s Healthcare Center In 1882, Dr. D.W. Robinson, a recent graduate, was in route by train to the Pacific Coast in quest of practicing medicine there. However, his life was about to take a twist. He was misled by the railroad folder and...
by wpx_HistoricPierreFortPierre | Dec 19, 2018 | Fort Pierre
Arkansas Joe and The Shady Ladies of Missouri Avenue (Information for this section is from an unpublished manuscript by Ken Stewart, author of “Arkansas Joe and The Shady Ladies of Missouri Avenue.” Stewart is a local historian who retired as a historian from the SD...
by wpx_HistoricPierreFortPierre | Dec 19, 2018 | Fort Pierre
In the fall of 1880, Max J Schubert from Watertown, WI, came to Pierre and bought land to build a drug store. He came back to Pierre in spring of 1881 with two carpenters and precut lumber to build the drug store and built a small one room, 14’x20’ temporary building...
by wpx_HistoricPierreFortPierre | Dec 19, 2018 | Fort Pierre
Charles Lindbergh Visits Pierre Most of us know that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the first to fly solo and non-stop from New York to Paris. His 33½ hour solo flight on May 20-21, 1927, in a single engine monoplane, was “the” aeronautical achievement which...
