A List of Historical Markers in Sioux Falls

Whether you’re just visiting Sioux Falls or have lived in the city all your life, visiting the Historical Markers in Sioux Falls is a nice way to spend any day. Here is a list of historical markers in town where you can soak up a bit of the city’s past.

Downtown Sioux Falls

• President Woodrow Wilson – The Coliseum/Multi-Cultural Center @ 515 N. Main Ave.
• The Hanging of an Innocent Man – Old Courthouse Museum @
  200 W 6th St.
• Cigar Manufacturing – E. 8th St & N. Phillips Ave.
• First Baptist Church – 1401 S. Covell Ave.
• Early Firefighting in Sioux Falls – Central Fire Station @ 100 S Minnesota Ave.
• The 1900 Campaign Whistlestop by Theodore Roosevelt – Central Fire Station @ 100 S Minnesota Ave.
• The Cataract – W. 9th St. & N. Phillips Ave.
• Cradle of Statehood – W 9th St. & Dakota Ave.
• The Squatter Government at Sioux Falls City – 100 S. Phillips Ave.
• Horse Drawn Streetcars – S. Phillips Ave. between W 9th St. & W. 10th St.
• Radio Station WFAT – 221 S. Main Ave.
• The Government Building – Southeast Corner of lot at W. 12th St. & S. Dakota Ave.
• Eliza Tupper Wilkes – W. 12th St. & S. Dakota Ave.
• Calvary Cathedral – 500 S. Main Ave.
• Washington High School – Washington Pavilion @ 301 S. Main Ave.

Fawick Park

• The Gaslight Era
• The Amidon Stone House
• Thomas L. Fawick

Cathedral Historic District

• Quartzite Paving Stones – W. 6th St. & Duluth Ave.
• Two Cemeteries – W. 7th St & Duluth Ave.
• Kaufmann House Mystery – W. 7th St. & N. Summit Ave.
• Senator R. F. Pettigrew – 131 N. Duluth Ave.
• The People’s Party National Convention – W. 9th St. & S. Summit Ave.
• The Women’s Alliance – W. 9th St & S. Spring Ave.

McKennan Park

• Col. Melvin Grigsby
• Pillars of the Nation
• A Park Born in Controversy – McKennan Park Zoo
• Sioux Falls Municipal Band

Augustana College Campus

• The Pettigrew-Tate Land Grant – W. 31st St. & S. Summit Ave.
• Mammoth – Denizen of the Ice – W. 28th St. & S. Grange Ave.

Augustana College Heritage Park

• 1892 Beaver Creek Lutheran Church
• Berdahl-Rolvaag House
• 1909 Eggers School

Falls Park

• The Queen Bee Mill
• Frederick Manfred’s “Siouxland”
• The Dubuque House
• Human Timeline
• 1851 Indian Traty
• The Sioux Quartzite
• Inland Seas

Sherman Park

• Indian Burial Mounds
• The Fifth Mound
• Linear Mound
• The Big Slide
• Mound Builders Village
• Battleship X
• 500 A.D. Copper Knife

Northeast Side

• Amidon Graves Mystery – S side of E Amidon St.
• The Amidon Affair – East of the penitentiary on N. Park Dr.
• Great Northern – 503 E. 8th St.
• South Dakota School for the Deaf – E. 10th St. & Maple Ave.

Northwest Side

• Joe Foss – Sioux Falls Regional Airport @ 2801 N. Jaycee Ln.
• Bomber Rams Skyscraper – North side of W. Algonquin St.
• Stratosphere Balloonist – North side of W. Algonquin St.
• Midair Collision – West side of N. Industrial Ave.
• In Memory of Mankana Na Ota E’ En – Lower Terrace Park
• West Sioux Falls – Elmwood Park @ 1401 N. Kiwanis Ave.
• The Town Pump – W. Bailey St. & N. Garfield Ave.

Southeast Side

• Mount Pleasant Cemetery – 2001 E. 12th St.
• Albert M. Mansor – Mansor-Pioneer Park
• 1936 Powder House Blast – 1101 S Highline Pl.
• From Glory to Glory – 117 W. 17th. St.

Riverdale Park

• The First “Flying Machine”
• Buffalo Bill

Southwest Side

• First United Methodist Church – 401 S. Spring Ave.
• An Institution of Organized Kindness – Sanford USD Medical Center Lobby –
  1305 W. 18th St.
• The Old Yankton Trail and Stage Road – University of Sioux Falls @ W. 22nd St. & Prairie Ave.
• Columbus College – W. 22nd St. near S. Lincoln Rd.
• Children’s Care Hospital & School – W. 26th St. & S. Lyndale Ave.
• Soo Skyways Airport – S. Kiwanis Ave. near 46th St.