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Dakota Sunset Museum,
Gettysburg
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FOUNDED
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Organizational meeting was held in September, 1983
Opened May 31, 1987; Museum was re-opened on Memorial Day 1990 in its permanent
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2005 OFFICERS
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President – Tom
Schlachter;
Vice-President – Dale Bramblee
Treasurer – Kathleen Nagel;
Secretary – Judy Hellhake
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MEETING SCHEDULE
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Open year around:
Summer – Memorial Day through Labor Day, seven days a week, 1 to 5 p.m.;
Winter – Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m.; free admission and tours are
given. |
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ACTIVITIES
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1998 Governor's Award for History winner
The museum features 40-ton Medicine Rock, sacred
to the Lakota people. Lewis and Clark passed near the rock in 1804. In 1995,
Lakota artist Del Iron Cloud painted a mural above the Medicine Rock. He
painted another large mural
that incorporated the Frankhauser big game
collection, which includes “The Grand Slam.”
The museum has information on local pioneers,
an early 1900s Lagerstad barbershop, a dentist office, law office, antique
home
furnishings, a laundry room, and country kitchen.
The museum houses a military display which includes two large canvas
paintings of the Battle of Shiloh and articles from the Civil War through
the Vietnam War.
The
Maucher Country School was moved to the museum property in 1993, and
periodically school sessions are held. In 2000, the museum acquired the
fully equipped 100-year-old Stocker Blacksmith Shop that is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places and is one of the last
complete blacksmith shops in South Dakota.
Preservation projects have been completed and are available for tours. A
small carriage barn was moved to the museum property in 2001 and repaired
for public viewing.
More than 8,000 Potter County
obituaries have been reorganized from the late
1800s to the present. They are on file at the museum and available to the
public.
In 2003, the museum hosted the Smithsonian
traveling display “Produce for Victory”, which dealt with WWII information.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
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Kathleen Nagel
Dakota Sunset Museum
205 W. Commercial Ave.
Gettysburg, SD 57442
Telephone: (605)765-9480
E-Mail: dakotasunset@sbtc.net
Website:
http://www.venturcomm.net/~dakotasunset
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