This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

South Dakota Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month was created to foster public appreciation and understanding in order to preserve South Dakota’s past for future generations. Our state's cultural heritage is rich and diverse as represented by the thousands of archaeological and historical sites, historic buildings, and landscapes throughout our state. The protection and preservation of these sites, buildings, and landscapes are intended to provide educational, scientific, and economic benefits for all citizens.

During "See South Dakota Week" the Cultural Heritage Center is sponsoring a Milk the Cow Contest. Bring your Kindergartener - 5th grader to the museum to participate. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the week to the winner from each grade.

David Ode, author of the award-winning Dakota Flora: A Seasonal Sampler, will lead an outdoor tour on the grounds of the Cultural Heritage Center to identify local flora. Please feel free to bring a bag lunch to eat while enjoying this program.

Chelle Somsen, South Dakota State Archivist, will discuss the recent additions to the archives website, such as the cemetery database, the biographical index, and the 1885 civil war census. The discussion will include helpful hints on how to search and what to do with what you find. Please feel free to bring a bag lunch to eat while enjoying this program.

Governor M. Michael Rounds will commemorate the 1743 Verendrye journey as the first recorded visit of European people in the area.  A lead tablet, placed by the expedition on a hillside as evidence the region had been explored for France, was discovered in 1913 by a group of Fort Pierre teenagers.  The rededication ceremony will recognize rehabilitation work recently completed at the site as well as the unveiling of two new historic interpretive markers.

Stephen Rogers, Architectural Historian with the National Park Service, will give a presentation on the significance of the 15 National Historic Landmarks located in South Dakota. South Dakota is the home of 15 National Historic Landmarks, 2 National Parks, a National Monument, a National Memorial, a National Historic Site, and a National Recreation River. Stephen will discuss the things you can see and do at these exceptional places. Please feel free to bring a bag lunch to eat while enjoying this program.

Save America’s Treasures grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites. Grants are awarded to Federal, state, local, and tribal government entities, as well as nonprofit organizations, through a competitive matching-grant program, The Save America's Treasures program received the 2007 Keystone Award, the highest award given to organizations outside the architectural field for outstanding contributions to society, from the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation.

Sponsored in conjunction with SD Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month. Discuss practical applications of using green building strategies for historic structures. The environmental goal of "reduce, reuse, recycle" can enhance the capital cost competitiveness of preservation projects. Review the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards used to assess building performance. This seminar is useful for facility & project managers, engineers, property owners, developers, preservation architect, & design professionals. AIA members can receive AIA/CES learning units.

Faculty: Tina Roach, AIA, LEED AP, associate at Quinn Evans Architects in Washington, DC.  Ms Roach specializes in preservation technology & sustainable design with specialized experience in the interpretation & application of LEED NC 2.1/2.2 & LEED for Homes.

$65, fee includes box lunch - Registration Deadline May 14, limited to 50 participants

Registration form

This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

How would you like to meet some residents of early Watertown. This tour of Mt. Hope Cemetery will have guides leading you to graves of early locals with re-enactors performing as historic figures General George Carpenter, businessman Charles Goss, painter John Banvard, livery stable owner Oscar Vaux, Codington County's first white woman Etta Tarbell, & South Dakota's first governor Arthur Mellette. It is hoped that this fundraiser for the Mellette House will become an annual event.

On the day of the event, ticket holders will receive a coupon which can be redeemed at Redlin Art Center Gift Shop for a free print. For an additional $20, the Gift Shop will upgrade this to a framed print.

Adults: $10, Under 12: $5, non-refundable; tickets available day of the event (at the Mausoleum), by mail (address under Contact), or in advance at the Mellette House @ 421 5th Ave. NW, Watertown (beginning May 1, Tues.-Sun., 1-5 p.m. CT)

Free, donations gladly accepted & greatly appreciated

Registration required for walk, register at Historic 1882 Galena Schoolhouse, pre-registrations welcome

Cindy Bienvenue at 202-606-8521; http://www.achp.gov/106essentials.html

The celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the laying of the Capitol cornerstone will duplicate as closely as possible the original ceremony when the cornerstone was laid. In 1908, the statewide Grand Lodge of Masons of SD conducted part of the ceremony to certify that the foundation was firm, assuring a sound foundation for government. The officers of the Grand Lodge have been asked to do once again ceremonially verify that the Capitol is sound. There will also be historic displays in the 1st floor Capitol Rotunda on the on the Capitol grounds.

This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

July 10-13 CT

This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

This program is designed to encourage large-scale restoration or rehabilitation of historic properties by individuals, organizations or public agencies. Grants for work beginning January 1, 2009 will be awarded in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $25,000. The grant amount must be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis from nonfederal and nonstate sources. Nonprofit organizations will be allowed to use in-kind services for one-half of their match. Funding for the program is from Deadwood gaming revenue earmarked by state law for historic preservation projects throughout the state and distributed by the State Historical Society.

October 16, 17, 18 MT

to be announced

This new exhibit examines the history of hunting and fishing and the vital role hunters and anglers play in game conservation and management. Take a look at early conservation efforts, learn how SD pheasant hunting grew from a one-day season in 1919 to the current 79-day season, and view a variety of artifacts including a large mammoth bone, buffalo hide and items made from buffalo, and cannons used to net birds for banding. Also featured is a share-your-story section where visitors can write down their personal tales of the “one that got away', and visitors can practice identifying rubber models of SD fish at a catch-and-release station.        

The State Property Tax Moratorium is available for buildings listed on the National or State Register of Historic Places and rehabilitated in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. The moratorium places an eight-year freeze on the property tax assessment; during the eight-year period, the property tax assessment may not be increased due to the certified rehabilitation work undertaken on the building.  The 2008 application will cover work done between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008.