Yankton, South Dakota Yankton, South Dakota Yankton, the Missouri River, and the Meridian Bridge to Nebraska Yankton, the Missouri River, and the Meridian Bridge to Nebraska Location in Yankton County and the state of South Dakota Location in Yankton County and the state of South Dakota Website City of Yankton Yankton is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of, Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.
Yankton is the principal town/city of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County, and which had an estimated populace of 22,702 as of July 1, 2015. Yankton was the first capital of Dakota Territory.
It is titled for the Yankton tribe of Nakota (Sioux) Native Americans; Yankton is derived from the Nakota word I-hank-ton-wan ("the end village"). Yankton is positioned on the Missouri River just downstream of the Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake and just upstream of the confluence with the James River.
The United States National Park Service's command posts for the Missouri National Recreational River are positioned in the city.
Yankton is generally referred to as the "River City", due to its adjacency to the Missouri River and the importance that the river played in the city's settlement and development.
Yankton has also earned the nickname, "Mother City of the Dakotas", due to the early meaningful part it played in the creation and evolution of the Dakota Territory, which later became the 39th and 40th U.S.
States of North and South Dakota, in the order given. 3.4 Yankton College A view of Yankton, South Dakota from the Meridian Pedestrian Bridge, showing the Missouri River, Discovery Bridge and the steeple of the Bishop Martin Marty Chapel.
Yankton is positioned at 42 52 54 N 97 23 33 W (42.881647, -97.392485). in southern South Dakota on the state's border with Nebraska.
The town/city is positioned on one of the last free-flowing, natural stretches of the Missouri River; this segment of the river, between Gavins Point Dam four miles west of Yankton, and Ponca State Park in Nebraska, has been designated by the U.S.
The central company precinct of the town/city is positioned on a natural landing along the Missouri River, and town/city rises in the west to "Mount Marty" (actually a high bluff along the river).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.45 square miles (21.89 km2), of which, 8.21 square miles (21.26 km2) is territory and 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2) is water. According to the 2003 Coldwell Banker Housing Price Comparison Index (HPCI), Yankton was found to have the lowest housing costs of any municipal entity in the entire United States.
The site of Yankton was occupied by the Yankton Sioux (Nakota) before to the arrival of European settlers.
In the journals of the expedition, the explorers write of a meeting on August 30, 1804 with members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe on a Missouri River bluff presently known as Calumet Bluff.
As recently as 1857, the present day site of Yankton was occupied by a village of Yankton Sioux led by Chief Pa-le-ne-a-pa-pe ("Struck by the Ree"). Two years later, with the signing of the Yankton Treaty of 1858, the territory was opened for settlement. The town/city was established where the small Rhine Creek (renamed Marne Creek in World War I) flowed into the Missouri River. The town/city interval as a stop for steamboats to take on fresh water and supplies, especially after steamboat traffic boomed when gold was identified in the Black Hills.
A undivided replica of the Dakota Territorial Capitol building stands in Yankton's Riverside Park.
Yankton was designated as the territorial capital, and newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln appointed his personal physician, William A.
Jayne of Springfield, Illinois, as the first territorial governor. The territorial capitol building, a plain, two-story wooden structure, was positioned at the intersection of Fourth and Capitol Streets; the initial structure has been demolished, but a replica of the building has been constructed in Yankton's Riverside Park.
Yankton served as the territorial capital until 1883 when the capital was moved to Bismarck (presently in North Dakota).
In response to the Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota, Governor Jayne issued a proclamation on August 30, 1862 requiring every male between the ages of 18 and 50 in every settlement in easterly Dakota, be formed into militias to protect against expected attacks from the Native Americans. In response, the Yankton militia assembled a stockade at the corner of Third Street and Broadway Avenue of approximately 200,000 square feet.
Settlers from the encircling area, and as far away as Sioux Falls and Bon Homme County, fled to Yankton in order to seek shelter in the structure.
Although roving bands of Native Americans did approach Yankton over the course of a several weeks, no attack ensued, and the stockade was eventually abandoned and torn down.
Among the most notable affairs that occurred in Yankton while capital, Jack Mc - Call, murderer of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood on August 2, 1876, was tried in Yankton for Hickok's murder, found guilty, and was hanged on March 1, 1877 at the age of 24.
The conservatory building on the former Yankton College ground - now a federal prison.
Due to the urging of the Reverend Joseph Ward of Yankton, the General Association of Congregational Churches in Dakota Territory voted in May 1881 to establish "Pilgrim College" in Yankton, which was to be the first private institution of higher learning in Dakota. When the college was incorporated in August 1881, the name had been changed to "Yankton College".
Classes commenced in October 1882, and Yankton College played a prominent part in the town/city for over 100 years.
Since its founding, Yankton appreciateed a natural favor as a steamboat landing along the Missouri River due to the fact that its landing stretched along the entire length of the town's riverfront. The first steamboat to reach Yankton from St.
Louis appeared in 1859, providing goods and supplies to pioneer and fur-traders in upper and central Dakota. After that, the town/city continued to grow, especially after gold was identified in the Black Hills in 1874 and prospectors rushed into Dakota Territory. By 1880, Yankton had turn into an established riverboat port on the Missouri River, but the city's status as an meaningful port was literally crushed on March 27, 1881 when an ice dam on the Missouri River burst, sending flood waters and enormous blocks of ice flowing towards the town. As a result of this flood, and the expansion of barns s as a preferred health of shipping goods (the barns reached Yankton in 1872, and the rest of Dakota throughout the 1870s), Yankton's river boat traffic was reduced, and the city's part as a prominent stopping point on the way west dwindled over the next a several years. Francis Marion Ziebach established the second journal in the region that became South Dakota, the Weekly Dakotan, in Yankton on June 6, 1861, bringing his outfit from Sioux Falls by team and wagon. A second newspaper, started by Francis Marion Ziebach, is still presented today as the Yankton Press and Dakotan. Ordway moved the territorial capital from Yankton to Bismarck, present-day North Dakota.
A Sample of Historic Structures in Yankton, South Dakota As evidence of its rich historical past, Yankton has 26 individual properties and 6 historic districts inside the town/city listed on the National Register of Historic Places, maintained by the U.S.
The Yankton (residential) Historic District, the Yankton College Historic District, the Yankton High School Historic District, the Yankton Historic Commercial District Yankton is served by the Yankton Public School District (K-12), Sacred Heart Catholic School (p - K-8), and Mount Marty College.
Yankton was once home to Yankton College; established in 1881, it was the first liberal arts college in the Dakota Territory.
The Yankton School District has a range of extracurricular activities including athletics and non-athletics.
The athletic squads are nominated on all levels of education including the Yankton Middle School and the Yankton High School.
The boys' athletic squads are known as the Yankton Bucks and the girls' squads are known as the Yankton Gazelles.
The City of Yankton maintains fourteen municipal parks, including Fantle Memorial Park, which is the locale of an outside enhance swimming pool, and Riverside Park, which is home to the city's Riverside Baseball Field.
There are two golf courses in the city: the Fox Run municipal golf course, and the private golf course positioned at Hillcrest Golf and Country Club. The City of Yankton and the Yankton School District jointly maintain and operate the Yankton High School and Summit Activities Center; this facility offers an indoor swimming pool, a several gymnasiums, and a enhance weight lifting room. This old bridge was converted to a pedestrian bridge (photo), and is part of the city's extensive pedestrian and bicycle path system. The Brokaw-Auld Trail is a linear park and recreational path along Marne Creek, and the State of South Dakota has advanced trails and paths to and throughout the Lewis and Clark Recreation Area.
Four miles west of Yankton, the Lewis and Clark Recreation Area attracts over one million visitors per year.
The City of Yankton is also served by SD Route 50, a four lane, divided highway which joins the town/city to US Interstate Highway 29, approximately 30 miles to the east.
1450 AM KYNT Yankton's Home Team Soft Adult Contemporary Riverfront Broadcasting LLC Yankton Several low-power non-commercial FM stations are licensed to Yankton.
Yankton is also home to South Dakota Magazine, a statewide bi-monthly printed announcement that explores the history, culture, arts, travel and outdoors of the state.
Mount Marty College offers a several cultural assets and venues in Yankton, including the Bede Art Gallery, which showcases artwork from county-wide and Native American artists, as well as Marion Auditorium, which hosts performing and fine art affairs.
Yankton is also home to the Dakota Territorial Museum, which is positioned in West Side Park, and which contains knowledge and artifacts about the tradition and evolution of the City of Yankton and the encircling area.
The abandoned Mead Building on the South Dakota Human Services Center ground in Yankton has been identified as the future site of the Dakota Territorial Museum.
The National Field Archery Association, NFAA, moved its command posts from Redland, California to Yankton, South Dakota. Yankton is mentioned various times as the territorial capital in the TV series Deadwood.
Chief Pa-le-ne-a-pa-pe ("Struck by the Ree" or "Strikes the Ree"), Yankton Sioux (Nakota) Tribe, signatory of Yankton Treaty of 1858 opening up easterly South Dakota for U.S.
The Reverend Joseph Ward, born in Perry Center, New York, educator and founder of Yankton College; his statue is in Statuary Hall in the U.S.
John Chandler "Chan" Gurney, served as United States Senator from South Dakota between 1939 and 1951 Lyle Alzado, NFL player, played college football at Yankton College Tom Brokaw, former NBC anchorman and native of Pickstown, South Dakota, graduated from Yankton High School Lawrence Welk, bandleader and native of Strasburg, North Dakota, resided in Yankton while he served as the WNAX AM radio bandleader South Dakota State Historical Society.
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Press & Dakotan - History of Yankton, South Dakota NOTE: According to these sources, the first journal in what is now South Dakota was the Dakota Democrat presented in Sioux Falls for about four years starting in 1858, and the Weekly Dakotan was the second journal in what is now South Dakota, starting on June 4, 1861.
A South Dakota Guide.
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