Sunday, October 30, 2022

Woolworths, Ben Franklin stores of Huron, South Dakota

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The beginning of Woolworth's in Huron starts with the end of the Weir building. The Weir Building was a small frame building just south ...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Sheriff John Boyle - 100% Policeman At all Times

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Patrolman John Boyle Seems like Huron's patrolman John Boyle always got his man.  Well, maybe not always, but he got a lot of them and i...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Then and Now, Farmers Market

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 Then and Now, the building at 800 Dakota Avenue, North in Huron (SD) Caption of newspaper photo, from the Huronite and Daily Plainsman of J...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Then and Now - Apartments on Lincoln Ave.

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  Top photo from Google Earth, Dec. 2021; bottom photo from the Huron Daily Plainsman of Dec. 31, 1961, 50 years apart. Caption reads: New A...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Highway 14 Through Huron, South Dakota

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 I grew up knowing this road as part of my Saturday morning "Flip the Loop" routine - see map below - over and over, all the while...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Crown Park

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 On Feb. 9, 1972, the City of Huron officially accepted a gift of land from the Crown Family that would become the city's smallest park,...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Forty One Years in the Making - Creating Ravine Park Lake

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The citizens of Huron, South Dakota waited a very long time for their lake.  More than forty-one years, to be exact. The first documented su...