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—Built in 1930 by former mayor and businessman W.E. Adams, the Adams Museum in Deadwood (pop. 1,380) is the oldest history museum in the Black Hills and showcases memorabilia related to legends such as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.

first appeared: 2/10/2008

—Allen Neuharth, born in 1924 in Eureka (pop. 1,101), helped build Gannett Co. into the nation’s largest newspaper chain and launched the company’s flagship paper, USA Today, in 1982. He was a newspaper carrier at age 11, then worked in the composing room at the Alpena Journal in Alpena (pop. 265).

first appeared: 1/27/2008

—Established in 2001, the Eureka Kuchen Factory in Eureka (pop. 1,101) specializes in baking the official state dessert. Kuchen is a sweet-dough pastry with a fruit and custard filling.

first appeared: 1/13/2008

—Rhett Albers and Bryan Defender have formed the Sitting Bull Monument Foundation to care for the gravesite of the Sioux Indian leader on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Mobridge (pop. 3,574). The men cleaned up the site and are raising money for a $12 million visitors center.

first appeared: 12/30/2007

—Woonsocket (pop. 720) is known as “The Town with the Beautiful Lake” because Lake Prior occupies the center of town.

first appeared: 12/2/2007

—“Hail! South Dakota” is the official state song, adopted in 1943 and written by Deecort Hammitt.

first appeared: 11/18/2007

—A restored 1928 grain storage building serves as an art gallery at the Granary Rural Cultural Center in Groton (pop. 1,356). The site includes the 1912 Putney Township Hall where workshops are held.

first appeared: 11/4/2007

—Issued last year in the 50 State Quarters Program, the South Dakota coin features an image of the state bird, a Chinese ring-necked pheasant, in flight above a depiction of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, featuring the faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The design is bordered by heads of wheat.

first appeared: 10/21/2007

—Scenes from the classic 1959 Hitchcock thriller, North by Northwest, were filmed at Mount Rushmore National Memorial near Keystone (pop. 311).

first appeared: 10/7/2007

—Adopted in 1988, the state fossil is the triceratops, a horned dinosaur that roamed South Dakota some 65 million to 68 million years ago.

first appeared: 9/30/2007

—A natural wonder, The Castles in the Slim Buttes region of the Custer National Forest in the northwest part of the state is a massive limestone uplift that resembles a medieval castle.

first appeared: 9/9/2007

—Established in 2006, the Roo Ranch near Deadwood (pop. 1,380) is jumping with about 50 kangaroos of various species, including wallabies and wallaroos.

first appeared: 8/26/2007

—A lesson on gold panning and displays of Black Hills mining equipment are some of the attractions at Wade’s Gold Mill Mining Museum in Hill City (pop.780).

first appeared: 8/19/2007

—Hundreds of tropical butterflies flutter year-round at the Sertoma Butterfly House in Sioux Falls. The flight room contains lush, green, tropical plants, a waterfall and a koi pond.

first appeared: 8/12/2007

—The 68-mile-long Peter Norbeck National Scenic Byway offers breathtaking views of the Black Hills along Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Road, with rock tunnels, hairpin curves and “pigtail” shaped bridges built in the 1930s.

first appeared: 7/15/2007

—More than 250,000 specimens of fossils, rocks and minerals provide a vivid impression of Dakota life in ancient times at the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City (pop. 59,607).

first appeared: 7/1/2007

—The state is divided into four geographic regions: the Drift Prairie in the east with low hills and glacier lakes; the Dissected Till Plains in the southeast with rolling hills and streams; the Great Plains in the western two-thirds with rolling hills, plains, canyons and buttes; and the Black Hills in the southwest, an area rich in gold, copper and lead.

first appeared: 6/17/2007

—Buffalo Ridge, a cowboy ghost town near Sioux Falls, features rustic buildings and life-size animated mannequins that re-enact 1880s history and Old West life typical of the region. A restaurant serves buffalo burgers.

first appeared: 6/3/2007

—Wild mustangs roam 11,000 acres at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary near Hot Springs (pop. 4,129), a gift of freedom from rancher Dayton O. Hyde, a former bronc rider and rodeo photographer who believes in protecting America’s equine heritage.

first appeared: 5/28/2007

—Jason Besmer of Custer (pop. 1,860) reeled in a state-record tiger muskellunge in 2003 at Lake Sharpe near Fort Pierre (pop. 1,991). The fish weighed 37 pounds, 7 ounces.

first appeared: 5/6/2007

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