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Transcendentalism - Definition, Meaning & Beliefs | HISTORY 

Transcendentalism | Definition, Characteristics, Beliefs, Authors, & Facts | Britannica 

Ralph Waldo Emerson | Biography, Poems, Books, Nature, Self-Reliance, & Facts | Britannica 

John Greenleaf Whittier - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies 

John Greenleaf Whittier | Poetry Foundation 

Fireside Poets | Poetry Foundation 

James Russell Lowell | American Poet, Critic & Abolitionist | Britannica 

Nathaniel Hawthorne | Biography, Books, Short Stories, & Analysis | Britannica 

George Bancroft | American Historian, Author, Diplomat | Britannica 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Biography, Poems, & Facts | Britannica 

Mark Twain | Biography & Facts | Britannica 

In this episode we will delve into the historical significance and a brief overview of the Queen Bee Mill at Falls Park in Sioux Falls. We will start with the historical marker that stands guard by the ruins of the mill, eager to share its history to the visitors of Falls Park.

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Commercial West - Google Books 

City of Hustle - Google Books 

The Queen Bee Mill (sdpb.org) 

Come along for a tour of historical markers in Downtown Sioux Falls! Our main focus will be on railroad history, and we are going to find a bunch of historical markers that talk about the importance of the railroads as we explore. This was originally a one night only bus tour for the Minnehaha County Historical Society History Talk held at Start Up Sioux Falls May 16th 2024.

Thursday May 16th come explore some fun history!
Bus Tour with me 
6pm
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History Talk with Dan Bilka
630
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Free will offering to the MCHS.
You can enter the Market Beat Theater on the East side of the building (100E 6th Street DTSF) with ramp access near 6th Street

Only 30 tickets per tour time available. First come first served.

This is the story of a historical marker that found a forever home at Terrace Park in Sioux Falls, only to disappear!

Dr. Josiah Phillips brought his wife Hattie to abandoned Fort Dakota in 1870, where they would live in the officers quarters until moving into their first home in 1873 near 11th and Phillips Ave. In this episode explore more about the lives of the namesakes of the busiest street in Downtown Sioux Falls.

Star Tribune Minneapolis 10/11/1885 

Argus Leader 1/7/1934 

Argus Leader 5/1/1983 Hattie’s Plaque 

Argus Leader 6/28/2006 Churches Shaped the City 

Argus Leader 6/20/1956 

Argus Leader 6/13/1934 Hattie Obituary “mother” quote 

Argus Leader 7/9/2005 Bruce Blake talks about Josiah 

History of South Dakota - Google Books 

Theta of Delta Kappa Epsilon : the story of sixty years, 1844-1904 : being a historical sketch of the chapter of [Delta] [Kappa] [Epsilon] Fraternity at Bowdoin College and brief biographies of its members from its establishment to date : Minot, John Clair, 1872- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 

Josiah Phillips Historical Marker (hmdb.org) 

The Parents of Sioux Falls (southdakotamagazine.com) 

MAJ Josiah Lock Phillips (1835-1882) - Find a Grave Memorial 

Dr. Josiah L. and Hattie Phillips - Issuu 

History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota - Google Books 

Doane Robinson's Encyclopedia of South Dakota - Google Books 

The New England Magazine - Google Books 

History of Dakota Territory - Google Books 

Sleepy Hallow had the headless horseman and Sioux Falls has a beheaded Union Civil War Soldier.... Statue. We are starting with the historical marker Seacoast Gun, but then we are hopping to the history of the location itself. There is not a historical marker for Lyon Park but there are some great plaques that talk about the park and its history and the little mystery of that statue. 

Joseph Hooker - Civil War, General & Legacy | HISTORY 

W.L. Dow - Google Books 

History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota - Google Books 

Seacoast Gun Historical Marker (hmdb.org) 

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) | Britannica 

The Lyon Family Home / William & Winona Lyon Historical Marker (hmdb.org) 

Argus Leader 2/6/1949 Winnona Lyon Obituary  

Argus Leader 9/27/1930 William Lyon Obituary  

Argus Leader 2/20/2000 Cannon Donation Revisited, some guesses are made about the date statue came to SF SD 

Argus Leader 11/24/1942 Scrapping the Cannon? 

Argus Leader 11/7/1933 moving the statue.

The unlikely origins of Sioux Falls annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Argus Leader 2/23/1981 

Argus Leader 3/4/1980 

Argus Leader 3/13/1922 

Sylvia Henkin Obituary (1921 - 2018) - Sioux Falls, SD - Argus Leader (legacy.com) 

Sioux Falls - Google Books 

The Sioux Falls Regional Airport, was established in 1939 with a Works Progress Administration grant of $165,000. Soon three runways were constructed, along with a terminal building, and a hangar. There was an unsuccessful movement to name the airport "Tennant Field" in memory of World War 1 veteran pilot and early Sioux Falls aviator Harold Tennant.

WPA 

Works Progress Administration: WPA & New Deal - HISTORY 

Civilian Conservation Corps (history.com) 

Stone Piers - Lake View (lakeviewlifestyle.com) 

Inflation Calculator | Find US Dollar's Value From 1913-2024 (usinflationcalculator.com) 

How did Adolf Hitler rise to power? | Britannica 

Mayor Graff 

Adolph Nelson Graff (1874-1949) - Find a Grave Memorial 

South Dakota Legislative Manual - Google Books 

South Dakota Legislative Manual Volume 19 Page 293 Published in 1925 

Aviation 1936-02: Vol 35 Iss 2 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 

Argus Leader April 4th, 1949, Graff Obituary 

Argus Leader April 5th,6th, and 7th 1949 

Harold Tennant 

Harold W. Tennant (1896-1928) - Find a Grave Memorial 

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Argus Leader August 8th, 1921 Tennant storing plane in garage 

Argus Leader May 6th, 1925 Tennant Altitude record attempt 

Argus Leader May 7th, 1925 Tennant Altitude record success 

Our History | Sioux Falls Regional Airport (sfairport.com) 

Small towns are where everyone knows each others business but happens when bad blood turns into a cold blooded murder?

Platted by Benjamin Richards in 1888 naming the townsite after his sons Benjamin and Clarence the small town of Ben Clare was meant to be a spot where farmers could get supplies and ship crops on the railroad without going all the way to Sioux Falls. The townsite however gets sold to Frank Bowen and it's all downhill from there.

Beware this episode contains newspaper accounts of a murder.

Links to some of the research, please note newspaper articles that are referenced in the episode can be found LocalLouPodcast.com or you can search for them on Newspapers.com

Wayne’s article A TOWN NAMED BEN CLARE - Issuu 

The church Ben Clare United Methodist Church - Valley Springs, SD - Find-A-Church (umc.org) 

Ben Clare on Map Minnehaha County Map - East, Atlas: Minnehaha County 1917, South Dakota Historical Map (historicmapworks.com) 

Historical Marker Ben Clare Historical Marker (hmdb.org) 

Frank Bowen Graesite Frank J Bowen (1863-1903) - Find a Grave Memorial 

American Negligence Reports Curent Series 1912 American Negligence Reports, Current Series ... - Google Books 

Railway Conductor Monthly 1905 Railway Conductors' Monthly - Google Books 

https://history.sd.gov/museum/docs/Immigrants.pdf