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  Custer, South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Custer City is generally considered to be the oldest established town and the "mother city" of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
The site of one of the major encampments of the Black Hills Expedition of General George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry in 1874 and the location of the first public discovery of gold in the Black Hills, it was first established as the town of Stonewall by illegal trespassing gold-boomers in 1875, but was renamed quickly.
Custer is the headquarters for the Supervisor of the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota and Wyoming, is convenient to major tourist attractions like Jewel Cave National Monument, Wind Cave National Park, Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and its own Crazy Horse Memorial.
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 South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889.
South Dakota is bordered to the north by North Dakota, to the south by Nebraska, to the east by Iowa and Minnesota, and to the west by Wyoming and Montana.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2004, South Dakota's population was 770,883.
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 Custer County, South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Custer County is a county located in the state of South Dakota.
The racial makeup of the county is 94.17% White, 0.27% Black or African American, 3.12% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 1.88% from two or more races.
In the county, the population is spread out with 24.10% under the age of 18, 6.30% from 18 to 24, 22.40% from 25 to 44, 31.10% from 45 to 64, and 16.00% who are 65 years of age or older.
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 Encyclopedia: South Dakota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
South Dakota is a state in the high plains of the northern Middle West in the United States.
The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM and T) was founded in 1885 as Dakota School of Mines, primarily as an institution to teach mining engineering and related disciplines.
Citibank rechartered itself as a South Dakota bank in 1981 to take advantage of a new law that set South Dakota's maximum permissible interest rate on loans to 25 percent, then the highest in the nation (New York had refused to raise its interest rate even after prolonged lobbying).
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 Custer County, South Dakota
Custer County is a county located in the U.S. State of South Dakota.
As of the census of 2000, there are 7,275 people, 2,970 households, and 2,067 families residing in the county.
The racial makeup of the county is 94.17% White, 0.27% African American, 3.12% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 1.88% from two or more races.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: South Dakota
South Dakota is well provided with railroad communication for intra state and interstate transportation, total mileage (1910) being 3953 miles.
The Constitution of South Dakota was made by a convention authorized by the territorial Legislature, which met in Sioux Falls in September, 1885.
the original Vicariate Apostolic of Dakota was established with the episcopal see at Yankton, but upon the division of the territory and the admission of South Dakota in 1889, the Diocese of Sioux Falls was established to embrace the entire state.
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 Custer County Custer, South Dakota (Counties)
The county seat of Custer County, South Dakota, is Custer.
The county population on July 1, 1999, was 7,025, an increase of 846 over the 1990 census.
Custer State Park Airport serves Fairburn and Custer County and is owned by the State of South...
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The county was created in 1875 during the gold rush and was named for John L. Pennington, governor of the Dakota Territory from January 1874 to May 1878.
In 1877 the county was duly organized with Sheridan, a mining camp deep in the mountains, as the county seat.
The Badlands are located in the eastern portion of the county and consist of formations of deep canyons, towering pinnacles and grasslands.
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 ipedia.com: Dewey County, South Dakota Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dewey County is a county located in the U.S. State of South Dakota.
The racial makeup of the county is 24.15% White, 0.03% Black or African American, 74.16% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.07% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races.
In the county, the population is spread out with 38.90% under the age of 18, 9.00% from 18 to 24, 27.20% from 25 to 44, 16.60% from 45 to 64, and 8.30% who are 65 years of age or older.
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 SDAC: Custer County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Custer County was organized in April, 1877 and named in honor of General George A. Custer.
Custer City was originally the county seat but it was later moved to Hayward City where the county commissioners first held their meetings.
However, Hayward City was found to be beyond the limits of Custer County and the county seat was permanently fixed at Custer City (now Custer) October 10, 1879.
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 Custer --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Custer is about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Rapid City.
Located about 20 miles (30 km) south of Rapid City and headquartered in Custer, it is bordered to the north and west by Black Hills National Forest and...
Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota covers 70,000 acres (28,000...
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 Custer County, South Dakota SD, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Custer County, SD Custer County is one of 66 counties in South Dakota.
This was an increase of 5.36% from the 2000 census.
Custer County supported George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
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 Signs and Symbols ofSouth Dakota
The South Dakota flag features the state seal surrounded by a golden blazing sun in a field of sky blue.
South Dakota is the land of the famous Sioux or Dacotah Indians.
Rodeo is South Dakota’s official state sport and can be found in arenas through the state and throughout the year.
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 AllRefer.com - Custer County , South Dakota (SD) - (county) - Facts and Information
Mines at Custer; dairy prods., livestock, poultry, grain, timber.
Grassland in E. Work continues in 1995 on mountain sculpture of Crazy Horse mounted on his horse, designed and started in 1947 by Polish-American Korczak Ziolkowski (1908-1982); to be focal point of a large cultural center and univ. at its base.
Capital city or county seat is shown by the symbol
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 South Dakota Poorhouse History
"In 1913, the Beadle County Poor Farm was all of section 15, Township 110, Range 61 (Custer Township) according to the Standard atlas of Beadle County, South Dakota, George A. OGLE and Co., comp.
The remains of seven people who were buried in the cemetery of the old Meade County poor farm have recently (December 2001 through February 2002) been uncovered during digging for the construction of a new home in Sturgis, according to recent newspaper reports.
The articles state that county officials are just now finding records of the old poor farm.
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 Custer Mansion Bed & Breakfast - Custer, South Dakota - BBOnline.com / Introduction
B&B Innkeepers of South Dakota and members of the Black Hills and Bad Lands Associations and the Custer County Chamber of Commerce.
Tubbs found his way to the Dakota Territory in 1877, just two years after the city of Custer had been founded by General George Custer and his Cavalry.
Later, it served as the county old people's home; a preschool; local church; mini-mall; a tourist attraction, known as "Monster Mansion"; a rental home; and, eventually in 1988, the house was turned into the first bed and breakfast in the southern Black Hills.
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 Custer News
Dumping another $20 million into the kitty, the South Dakota Legislature overwhelmingly approved a measure Friday that is designed to help lure a world-class science laboratory to the dank depths of the...
CUSTER, S.D.-A trip to Sturgis for a grandfather and grandson turned tragic Monday near Custer, S.D., when Max Rothwell wrecked his motorcycle and died later from his injuries.
A Custer woman will spend at least 25 months in the penitentiary for shooting her husband and owe $151,242 in restitution for his medical bills when she gets out.
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 Debt and Loans Custer County South Dakota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 South Dakota Census Records Online
South Dakota State Census Records: Census enumerations were taken every 10 years between 1895 and 1945.
Dakota Territory was split into North and South Dakota in 1887.
South Dakota Census Records is a tool designed to help you find sites which offer free South Dakota census records online.
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 Custer Koa Kampground, South Dakota camping
What a great place for camping Custer Koa Kampground is. Custer Koa Kampground is located in a beautiful part of South Dakota, with so many outdoors activities around Custer Koa Kampground nobody could get bored.
Custer Koa Kampground is not the only place around here, Stockdale Lake is a nearby lake and Bismark Lake is a nearby lake that you could visit.
Camping in South Dakota is such a great thing to do.
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 Lawyers Custer County South Dakota: Lawyers and Attorneys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Custer State park is one of the largest and most beautiful state parks in the nation.
Martin Crawford contends that the experiences of Ashe County's men and women during the Civil War era were shaped as much by their membership in the wider American society as by uniquely local factors.
Among them are teenager Selina Howell, whose suicide draws the reader into an intimate portrayal of kin and community dynamics, and Tom Crumpler, the young lawyer-politician who made the ultimate sacrifice for a cause he initially opposed.
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 South Dakota CountiesBirth Certificate, Death Record, Marriage License and More
Birth, death and marriage records which are not available from the State Office should be available from the Register of Deeds in the county where the event occurred.
Divorce records may be obtained from the State Office or from the Clerk of Courts in the county where the divorce occured.
This page tells how to obtain copies of vital records such as birth certificates, death records, marriage licenses and divorce decrees in South Dakota Counties.
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 Custer County South Dakota Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In June, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the South Dakota Comprehensive Genealogy Database.
The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in South Dakota, where collected databases would be stored.
In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.
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 The Political Graveyard: Custer County, S.Dak.
For convenient presentation of this material, the site includes a page for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., as well as for various U.S. and foreign territories and countries.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
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 KELOLAND.COM: News, Weather and Sports for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It sounds worse than it may be, but state veterinarian Sam Holland is confirming that a case of "sylvatic plague" has been found in a prairie dog from western Custer County in South Dakota.
This type of plague poses the biggest threat to prairies dogs and other rodents, but can be passed from animal to animal--and in rare cases from animals to people if bitten by infected fleas.
According to Holland the risk to people is very low, but people should use caution when working with wild animals or exposing their pets to prairie dogs.
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 AllRefer.com - Custer, South Dakota (SD) (Custer County) - (town) - Facts and Information
Custer County, South Dakota (SD), United States, North America
Custer co., SW S.Dak., 30 mi/48 km SW of Rapid City, in Black Hills, within Black Hills Natl.
Custer State Hospital 5 mi/8 km S. Nearby are Custer State Park, Harney Peak, Mt. Rushmore Natl.
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 Custer County South Dakota DS3 quotes in Real-Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Custer County South Dakota DS3 quotes in Real-Time
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