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The house on the Virgil Road
Pictured below is Elvirta Knutz and her two young sons, Willie and Howard. They are pictured at their home on the Virgil Road SW of Huron, S. D. Attached to the photo is a sketch she made of the...
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The Ruptured Appendix
One summer morning I was outside with my grandfather, Bill Knutz, tying the dog out, when he told me that he had gotten very sick when he was 11. His appendix had ruptured and he was rushed to the...
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The Mystery Building on the Corner
I must have driven by this lot on the corner of 2nd street and Dakota avenue a million times in the years I lived in Huron, South Dakota. I never really noticed what it was. A gas station? A car...
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Forty One Years in the Making - Creating Ravine Park Lake
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 suggestion about creating this lake came in the fall of 1895....
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Crown Park
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, Crown Park, at 1.5 acres.Photo courtesy of Google EarthDespite...
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Highway 14 Through Huron, South Dakota
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 looking for other people we knew who were doing the same thing. This...
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Then and Now - Apartments on Lincoln Ave.
Top photo from Google Earth, Dec. 2021; bottom photo from the Huron Daily Plainsman of Dec. 31, 1961, 50 years apart.Caption reads: New Apartment Under Construction: Huron enjoyed a substantial...
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Then and Now, Farmers Market
Then and Now, the building at 800 Dakota Avenue, North in Huron (SD)Caption of newspaper photo, from the Huronite and Daily Plainsman of July 22, 1956:"Opening in Huron this week was the new Jack and...
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Sheriff John Boyle - 100% Policeman At all Times
Patrolman John BoyleSeems like Huron's patrolman John Boyle always got his man. Well, maybe not always, but he got a lot of them and in his amazing 40-year career in local law enforcement, he kept...
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Woolworths, Ben Franklin stores of Huron, South Dakota
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 of the Costain building on Dakota avenue, between 3rd and 4th...
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Historical Lantern Slides from Huron College
Voorhees HallThe heart of Huron College, Voorhees Hall, along with other college buildings had their contents auctioned off and were demolished. I loved that building; you could feel the 103 years of...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 1
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 2 - Unmounted photos from Rome
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 3 - Italy
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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Bell Bakery and the I.O.O.F. Building
Every Christmas when I make date filled cookies, I think back to the first year I made them to take to my grandmother's house for the holidays. I had never heard of them and was planning on...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 4
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 5 - European Views
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 7 - West Colorado
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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The Photography of Louise French - Album 6 - Pompeii
In an earlier blog post I told the story of the glass lantern slides that Huron College Latin professor Louise French had made. These lantern slides are the blending of her loves of both travel and...
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Glass Slides of Huron College - Athletics
Miss Louise French, a teacher of Latin and Fine Art at Huron College (Huron, South Dakota) for 25 years was also a photographer and specialized in making Lantern slides. These slides are positive...
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Glass Slides of Huron College
Miss Louise French, a teacher of Latin and Fine Art at Huron College (Huron, South Dakota) for 25 years was also a photographer and specialized in making Lantern slides. These slides are positive...
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Glass Slides of Huron
Miss Louise French, a teacher of Latin and Fine Art at Huron College (Huron, South Dakota) for 25 years was also a photographer and specialized in making Lantern slides. These slides are positive...
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Grandpa's Old GPS Unit
I saw this on Facebook and it brought back memories... kind of excruciating memories, but at the same time very happy ones. Grandpa Bill Knutz had one of these mounted on the dash of his car for as...
View ArticleBeadle County Honor Roll, 1917-1919
NAMES OF MEN IN HONOR OF WHOM MEMORIAL CERTIFICATES WERE ISSUED BY THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSETranscribed from the Report of the State Council of Defense, South Dakota, 1917-1919BEADLE...
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Karmel Korn
I can still smell it... walking through downtown Huron and smelling the Karmelkorn coming from the Karmelkorn Shop. I loved that store! It was one of my favorites in downtown Huron, besides...
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