Fort Pierre Depot Museum

Back Next Near intersection of Highway 83 and 4th Ave., Fort Pierre With the planned 1907 construction of a railroad bridge across the Missouri River from Pierre to Fort Pierre, the Chicago and NorthWestern railroad track was quickly laid from Fort Pierre to Rapid...

Verendrye Museum

Back Next 115 Deadwood Street, Fort Pierre, SD 57532 The Verendrye (Var-en-dree) Museum was established in 1968, when the Old Stanley County Historical Society and many other historically-minded individuals worked together to bring to life their vision of a place...

Verendrye Monument

Back Next Verendrye Road near Fort Pierre The Verendrye Monument, on Verendrye Hill overlooking the city of Fort Pierre just northwest of where the Bad and Missouri Rivers come together, is one of only a few verifiable sites associated with the first Europeans to...

Sansarc Country School Museum

Back Next Located behind the Log Cabin Visitor Center, downtown Fort Pierre Sansarc School built in 1910 and used actively as a school until 1969. Purchased and moved to Gene Stoeser ranch in 1973. Gene then brought schoolhouse to Ft Pierre to be used as a museum in...

Historic Trails (Deadwood, Indian, etc.)

Back Next One of the famous trails is the Fort Pierre to Deadwood Trail which begins at the end of Hustan Ave in Fort Pierre near the southwest end of the present Colonel Waldron Missouri River Bridge. Following the discovery of gold in Deadwood in 1875, hordes of...

Lewis and Clark Sites

Back Next A major encounter which affected the destiny of all inhabitants of the region occurred in Fort Pierre on September 24-28, 1804. At the mouth of the Bad River, in present-day Fischers Lilly Park members of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery met for the...