Ernest W. Caldwell
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 64
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Excerpt from Sioux Falls Illustrated: A Comprehensive Sketch of the City's Wonderful Growth and Its Resources It is only eleven years since Sioux Falls secured corporate existence; and this brief span of time has seen her grow from a scattering frontier village to a city of inhabitants, enjoy ing all the advantages of a metropolis - railroads wholesale and retail mercantile establishments, factories, quarries, packing houses, cathedrals, churches, colleges, schools, daily newspapers, street cars, gas, electric light, waterworks sewers, etc. Twenty-three years ago the first per manent white settler located where now busy thousands are pushing the city toward its manifest destiny. Eighteen years ago, a military reservation embraced all the land on which the city now stands, and which was subsequently pre-empted from the government, but none of it was platted into town-lots until 1871. These statements emphasize the marvelous character of the development which has taken place, and it is only for this purpose that reference to pioneer times is herein made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.