“First Building at Yankton Site May 1858”

308
1960
Yankton

(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)

Marker Text

C.J. Holman, for a Sioux City group, rivals of Frost, Todd & Co.'s Upper Missouri Land Company came in March 1858, was run off by threatening Indians but returned in May and built cabin, after fracas with F.T. & Co. employees and lived there till September when Major Lovell,

U.S.A ousted him again. Cabin near this marker.

Location

Yankton County, at Yankton bridge at base at Pine Street

This page is part of the Historical Markers section of this site: