“Fort Pierre”
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
The oldest continuous white settlement in the area of South Dakota.
First visited by Verendrye, who took over for France by planting a lead plate on March 31, 1743. A monument marks the spot it is over the R.R. track, first street to right, on hill to your left 6 miles.
Joseph LaFramboise started first fur post here in 1817 on west bank of Missouri just south of mouth of the Bad River. Whites here since then.
Practically on the same site, French Fur Co., Pierre D. Papin & Paul Cerres had post Ft. Teton 1827. Sold to Am. Fur Co. 1830. Bad River then called Little Missouri was site where Father Hoecken on June 12-13 1840 baptized 25 children offspring of 13 traders and trappers, among them Dorion, Papin, Halsey, Campbell, Brazeau and Alleron.
All these things happened in the limits of Ft. Pierre.
Location
Stanley County, Fort Pierre historic turnout on US Highway 83 (2006)