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| South Dakota Facts |
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The Silent Guide Monument in Philip, South Dakota was built in the late 1800s by a sheepherder to mark a waterhole that never went dry. Made of flat stones, the guide originally stood fourteen feet high, and could be seen as far as thirty five miles away. |
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In 1898, the first commercial timber sale on Federal forested land in the United States was authorized in the area of Jim and Estes Creeks (near the town of Nemo, South Dakota). |
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota exists as a city today because the land speculators who staked town site claims there in 1857 came in search of the cascades of the Big Sioux River. |
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