An idyllic scene, a gentleman in a suit fish on beautiful Slate Creek near Mystic, SD in 1927. If one looks closely, the man in the suit is a recognizable face of the time. Why…it’s US President Calvin Coolidge!
Today’s Throwback Thursday shows one of the ways waters have been diverted. This is the spillway for the Rose Hill Dam, of Rose Hill Township in Hand County.
Mitchell boasts one of the most novel and notable icons in the nation: the Corn Palace. This postcard from 1921 shows the new Corn Palace which is the one known today.
In the early 1900s, crop production relied heavily on binders that used twine, especially of henequen and sisal, for containing harvested grain. Henequen and sisal came from the Yucatán Peninsula.