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unusual facts about Gettysburg, South Dakota


Hazel Forbes

Hazel Forbes (November 26, 1910 – November 19, 1980) was an American dancer and actress from Gettysburg, South Dakota.


2009–10 Great West Conference men's basketball season

The league's coaches voted South Dakota the inaugural preaseason #1 and South Dakota senior forward Tyler Cain the preseason player of the year.

82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment arrived at Falmouth, Virginia late in November; participated in the battle of Fredericksburg; returned to its camp at Falmouth; was active at Chancellorsville in May, 1863; after a short rest at Falmouth marched to Gettysburg and there suffered fearful loss, 192 members out of 365 engaged, Col. Huston being numbered among the dead.

Anthony Lledo

Lledo's latest projects includes the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg, directed by Adrian Moat and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the horror/thriller Darkroom, directed by Britt Napier as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which premieres early 2013.

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Battle of Winchester

Second Battle of Winchester, a battle fought between June 13 and June 15, 1863 as part of the Gettysburg Campaign during the American Civil War

Cheyenne River

It is joined by Rapid Creek, passes Wasta and is joined by the Belle Fourche River in eastern Meade County, after which it flows ENE along the southern boundary of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

Christian C. Sanderson Museum

The museum also houses the pocket book Jennie Wade was carrying when she was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and a number of autographs including those of Sitting Bull, Shirley Temple, Helen Keller and Basil Rathbone.

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad

In April 2004, DM&E was awarded the power of eminent domain in South Dakota by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Pierre, South Dakota.

Faith, South Dakota

Faith is located in the West River region of South Dakota, that part of the state located west of the Missouri River, and in the Northern Great Plains, on a ridge dividing the Cheyenne River to the south and the Grand River and its major tributary, the Moreau River to the north (both are tributaries of the Missouri).

Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike

U.S. Route 140, a former US highway designation—the northern portion of which had been the Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike.

Ginnie Wade

A monument to her, designed by Gettysburg resident Anna M. Miller, was erected in 1900 that includes an American flag that flies around the clock.

Jack Sepkoski

His Ph.D. was on the field geology and paleontology of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Jake Boritt

In 2010 he wrote and produced the "The Gettysburg Story: Battlefield Auto Tour" performed by actor Stephen Lang ('Avatar', 'Gettysburg').

Lafayette McLaws

Just before his death, however, his opinion changed about the lost cause movement, and he began speaking out about Longstreet's failures at Gettysburg.

Lake Harney

There are several landmarks that are named after him in his honor; such as Harney Peak in South Dakota as well as Camp Harney in Zapata, Texas.

Leffert L. Buck

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

Liberty Township, Brown County, South Dakota

Liberty Township is a civil township in Brown County, South Dakota, United States.

Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend

James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded, retired to Lancaster Township; Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded, retired to Gettysburg.

Lisa Klein

She followed that up with Two Girls of Gettysburg for which she traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to research the battle site.

Loaf 'N Jug

As of 2008, there were 175 Loaf 'N Jug stores, primarily in Colorado and Wyoming with additional stores in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Minnesota State Highway 117

Minnesota State Highway 117 is a short highway in west central Minnesota, which runs from Roberts County Road 19 at the South Dakota state line and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 27 near Wheaton.

North Dakota Highway 1804

Highway 1804 begins at the border between North Dakota and South Dakota near Pollock, South Dakota, and continues uninterrupted along the north east side of the Missouri River through Emmons, Burleigh, McLean, Mountrail, and Williams counties.

Northwestern Bell

In 1976, Northwestern Bell sold access lines in the Midland, Philip, Martin, White River, Milesville, and Hayes exchanges to Golden West Telephone, a small telephone cooperative in South Dakota.

Phillips' Legion

The Legion fought in the Gettysburg Campaign and was mentioned in Brigadier General Wade Hampton's report to the Assistant Adjutant-General, dated August 13, 1863, as having helped repulse a July 2 Union attack between Hunterstown and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Robert H. Johnson

In 1972, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency.

Ruse of war

The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania while crossing through the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines during the First World War was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that "the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved".

Salix serissima

These include four in the Black Hills of South Dakota (two on the Black Hills National Forest); one in the Sherman Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming (on the Medicine Bow National Forest); seven in north-central Colorado (one on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest); and one in southwestern Colorado (potentially on the San Juan National Forest).

Sheila Sondergard

Sheila Sondergard (born April 24, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maui, Hawaii, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Central America.

Silver carp

By August 2009, they had become abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois, and had grown close to invading the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

The Caribou Show

The show also lampooned local political figures, including Dave Munson and Vernon Brown.

Thomas A. Desjardin

Desjardin has appeared in nationally televised documentaries numerous times and was the historical consultant for actor Jeff Daniels in his role as Chamberlain in the 1993 movie Gettysburg.

United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1956

Pennsylvania was the home state of President Eisenhower as he moved to the Gettysburg area after World War II.

United States presidential election in South Dakota, 2004

SD is allocated 3 electors because it has 1 congressional districts and 2 senators.

West Virginia in the American Civil War

Among these were the 7th West Virginia Infantry, famed for actions at Antietam and Gettysburg, and the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry, which also fought at Gettysburg.

Wheatfield Road

Wheatfield Road comes to an end at an intersection with PA 134 in the community of Round Top, where the road continues east as Blacksmith Shop Road to Baltimore Pike.

Will Tallman

He was most recently self-employed performing computer networking and telephone line improvements for several small businesses in the Hanover and Gettysburg areas.

William H. Tipton

He became quite popular as an outdoor portrait photographer, taking thousands of photographs of visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield, where he established Tipton Park.


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