“Black Hills and Ft. Pierre Railroad Narrow Gauge Railway”
378
1964
Meade
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
The B.H. & Ft. P. was the first railway of any sort in the Black Hills. In 1891 it reached Piedmont on the Fremont, Elk Horn and Missouri Valley railroad via Elk Creek. This vestige is of an extension to Stage Barn Canyon in 1902. The last train to operate was on March 20, 1930.
Location
Meade County, I-90 at Covered Wagon trailer park (1988)