All about South Dakota
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Kids Konnect.com - South Dakota
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South Dakota Fun Facts
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The 50 States - South Dakota
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Mr. Donn.org - South Dakota
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Class Brain.com - South Dakota
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Explore the States - South Dakota
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50 States.com - South Dakota
Fast facts & Trivia
RoadsideAmerica.com - South Dakota
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Local homeschooling groups, classes, and events for South Dakota
West River Christian Homeschoolers
The Natural Learning Network of South Dakota
SECHE - Sioux Empire Christian Home Educators
Black Hills Homeschool Association
South Dakota Home School Association
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State Facts
South Dakota was the 40th state to join the union. It became a state on November 2, 1889.
Capital - Pierre
Abbreviation - SD
Nickname - Mount Rushmore State
Motto - "Under God the people rule"
Song - Hail, South Dakota
Bird - Chinese Ring-Necked Pheasant
Flower - American Pasqueflower
Insect - Honey Bee
Area - approximately 77,121 square miles
South Dakota field trips
Historic Adams House
The Adams Museum’s leadership in historic preservation led naturally to its involvement in restoring the Victorian home of two of Deadwood’s founding families, including the Adams Museum’s founder W.E. Adams. Built in 1892, the Queen Anne-style home with its oak interiors, hand-painted canvas wall coverings, stained glass windows, thoroughly modern 19th century plumbing, electricity and telephone service and original furnishings sat silent for almost 60 years after W.E. Adams’ death in 1934, when his second wife Mary Adams closed the doors. Mrs. Adams left everything intact from the sheet music in the piano bench, the books in the library, the china in the pantry, to the patent medicines in the bathroom, the gilded settee in the parlor and even the cookies in a cookie jar. The home was purchased by the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission in 1992.
Adams Museum
Deadwood’s Adams Museum is considered the Black Hills’ oldest history museum. Artifacts on display from Deadwood’s infamous past reflect the powerful legends of Wild Bill, Calamity Jane and Deadwood Dick. From a one-of-a-kind plesiosaur, the Thoen Stone and W.E. Adams’ love letters to a lively folk art collection, Lakota bead and quill work and Potato Creek Johnny’s gold nugget; the Adams Museum exhibits capture the mysteries, the tragedies, the bawdiness and the dreams found in the history, art and natural history of the Black Hills.
Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center
The Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center (HARCC) has the opportunity to protect and make accessible for the first time ever the history of the Homestake Mining Company. The 10,000 cubic foot Homestake Mining Company archival collection is of national significance. While there are many aspects that make the Homestake Mining Company unique, it is also representative of an industry of iconic proportions that dominated and helped settle much of Western America. Mining deeds, land claims, mineral surveys, annual reports, exploration and production records, photographs, assay ledgers, timber contracts and a plethora of other mining-related documents, dating from 1876 to 2002, detail the company’s 126-year history in Lead, South Dakota and far beyond.
High Plains Western Heritage Center
The High Plains Western Heritage Center includes a Five-State Regional Museum founded to honor the old west pioneers of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming & Nebraska. View quality exhibits of Western art, Artifacts & Memorabilia including the original Spearfish to Deadwood Stagecoach, turn-of-the-century Kitchen, Saddle Shop & a Blacksmith Shop. Forestry, Mining, Ranching & Rodeo are also depicted. Outdoor displays feature a furnished Log Cabin, rural Schoolhouse
& antique Farm Equipment.
Journey Museum
The Journey Museum takes you on an incredible trek through time, from the violent upheaval that formed the mystical Black Hills over 2.5 billion years ago to the continuing saga of the Western Frontier. When your journey is complete, you will fully understand the legacy of the land and its people. Planetarium on site.
Virtual field trip online
National Music Museum
Founded in 1973 on the campus of The University of South Dakota in Vermillion, the National Music Museum (NMM) & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments is one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. Its renowned collections, which include more than 14,800 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere.
Old Courthouse Museum
The building is constructed of native Sioux Quartzite stone, a popular local building material of the late 19th century. When completed in 1893, Dow claimed the structure would be the “largest courthouse between Chicago and Denver.” Interior courthouse features include slate stairs, granite pillars, stained glass windows, and tiled fireplaces. Perhaps one of the most striking features of the building is the 16 large murals on the walls of the hallways painted between 1915 and 1917. Painted by Norwegian immigrant Ole Running, the murals detail early life in Dakota, natural features, and images of his home in Norway. Today, you can visit three floors of public exhibit space that provide a colorful look at the region’s history.
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