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Please help find a Vermillion SD map. #MapMonday
Historian Everett Sterling wrote in Vermillion Story (1959) that there was “a 1910 map preserved in the City Building, on which every residence is shown and identified …” Does anyone know where the map is now? Sterling’s Vermillion Story is in the Chilson Collection. Other histories about Vermillion and Clay County SD are listed on […]
Doris Peterson
Apr 25, 20221 min read
To make Easter eggs, why would you turn out the light to cook eggs in the shell? #oldfashionedrecipes #recipes
This recipe is from Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them. Buffalo NY: Larkin Co., 1906. This book is in the Chilson Collection in the Archives and Special Collections.
Doris Peterson
Apr 13, 20221 min read
Does Clay County SD have ghost towns?
If ghost towns do not need to have standing structures, then Clay County has at least one – Lodi. Bloomingdale may turn out to be another one, but further research is needed to determine if Bloomingdale was a town. Both are now private land and used for farming. Peterson’s atlas can be viewed in the […]
Doris Peterson
Apr 7, 20221 min read
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