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Gavins Point Dam—Lewis & Clark Lake
Geology, Paleontology, Archeology, History
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PHOTOGRAPHS
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The Santee Agency Photo—U. S. National Park Service
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The Pilgrim Congregational Church, near Santee, was erected in the
early 1870's. The Congregational Church has been active in religious and
educational work on the reservation for many years.
Photo—U. S. National Park Service
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The Church of Our Most Merciful Savior (Episcopal), Santee.
The building was erected in 1884. Photo—U. S. National Park Service
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North Yankton from the west, 1874. Photo—S. J.
Morrow Collection, courtesy of the W. H. Over Museum, University of
South Dakota
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Third Street, looking east, Yankton, 1876. Photo—S.
J. Morrow Collection, courtesy of the W. H. Over Museum, University of
South Dakota
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Yankton, 1882. Photo—S. J. Morrow Collection,
courtesy of the W. H. Over Museum, University of South Dakota
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The steamboat "Ida Rees No. 2", Yankton, 1877. The Missouri River
formed a highway for traders and pioneer settlers alike. Steamboats
appeared in the fur trade as early as 1831 and soon came to dominate the
river. Photo—S. J. Morrow Collection, courtesy of the W. H. Over
Museum, University of South Dakota
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The steamboat landing at Yankton, 1878 with the
"Commodore" and the "Coulson Line" at the river bank. Photo—S. J.
Morrow Collection, courtesy of the W. H. Over Museum, University of
South Dakota
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The Bon Homme Bruderhof, better known as the Bon
Homme Hutterite Colony, was established in 1874 when sixty Hutterite
families, recent migrants from the Ukraine, purchased 2,500 acres of
land on the north side of the Missouri, opposite Bon Homme Island.
Photo—U.S. National Park Service
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The Hutterites, a branch of the Mennonite movement, grew
out of the Anabaptist disaffection of the Reformation. The name
"Hutterite" originated with their leader, Jacob Hutter, who was burned
as a heretic at Innsbruck, Austria, in the year 1536. During the bloody
conflict of the Thirty Years War, the Hutterites were persecuted by
Catholics and Lutherans alike. They were ordered from Austria in 1622,
and the sect was declared outlaw in 1755. Following a brief sojourn in
Rumania, the Hutterites settled in the Ukraine at the request of the
Russian government. By the 1870's, intolerable restrictions caused the
group to migrate again. After investigating conditions in the United
States, they began the move to Dakota Territory, the first contingent
arriving in Yankton during August of 1874. The Bon Homme Colony was
established the same year. From the first, life in the colony was
communal; grain is placed in a common granary and the surplus sold for
the benefit of the group. Families share equally, eating food cooked in
a common kitchen in a common dining hall. The Bruderhof limited its
membership to a total of 100. Although the group is much smaller than
this at present, in the past seven groups have been sent out to form
daughter colonies. Photo—U.S. National Park Service
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The grist mill at the Bon Homme Hutterite colony. The mill was erected
in 1875 and continued in regular operation until the area was inundated by
the Lewis and Clark Lake. Photo—U. S. National Park Service
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Communal quarters ("the dormitory") at the Bon Homme Bruderhof.
Photo—Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution
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Last Updated: 08-Sep-2008
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