Chamberlain (South Dakota)
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Chamberlain is a city in Brule County in South Dakota in the United States .
geography
Chamberlain is the seat of the county government of Brule County and is on the left, here the east bank, of the Missouri River . The town had 2,387 inhabitants and an area of 16.9 km² in the US census in 2010. The geographical position is 43 ° 48 ' N , 99 ° 20' W . Its height above sea level is 428 m.
history
Chamberlain was founded in 1881, named after Selah Chamberlain , a railroad entrepreneur. In the city is the South Dakota Hall of Fame .
Only a few kilometers north of Chamberlain is the National Historic Landmark with the excavations for the Crow Creek Massacre . The place has been protected since 1964 and registered as a National Historic Site with number 66,000 710 since 1966 . Here, around 1325, a population that was in the process of protecting itself on the terrain spur with palisades and trenches was massacred by enemy attackers.
Rail transport
The Marquette - Rapid City railway of the former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad railroad runs through Chamberlain . Today the stretch between Kadoka and Mitchell belongs to the state of South Dakota . The operation of the route is incumbent on the Dakota Southern Railway . Due to the low volume of transport and the poor condition of the Oacoma-Chamberlain Railroad Bridge over the Missouri, traffic is suspended for most of the route.
Indian culture
The Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center in Chamberlain preserves the memory of the history and culture of the Plains Indians , particularly the Lakota in Missouri and the Dakotas , and some of the Indian artists of the last century as Oscar Howe . The St. Joseph's Indian School , co-founded by the German missionary Father Hogeback (in English Hogebach) of the Herz Jesu Orden SCJ in 1927, has an attached boarding school for up to 220 children from the Indian families who live away from Chamberlain.
Web links
- About the city of Chamberlain (PDF; 49 kB)
- Akta Lakota Museum website