Written Histories

Sturgis & Meade County Historical Society is pleased to provide access to several articles written about our local past:

• Characters of Early Sturgis & Meade County (publication that replaced History Day 2020)
  
   

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• • Double Murder from Sturgis History

    In the year of 1902, a couple of young men from Sioux City, Iowa, located on a homestead in eastern Meade county, South Dakota, and there...Read more

• • History of the Erskine School written by Nancy Keffeler

    Sturgis, also formerly known as "Scooptown", was founded on October 25, 1878. The town is located 1 1/2 miles west of Fort Meade. At the time...Read more

• • Sturgis from Black Hills Illustrated - 1904

    One of the most progressive towns of the Black Hills country is Sturgis, which might be said to be about an hour from...Read more

• • Court proceeding related to Grasshopper Jim.

    Plaintiff brought this action to enforce an alleged oral contract wherein it was agreed that plaintiff should inherit and ...Read more