Halloween

Dragon Mural

Stained Glass

Fall Walk

Bridge

Palisade Bridge

Lutefisk Landing

Jesse James Opera House

Jesse James Jump

This mural is in Garretson, SD where Jesse James jumped the Devil's Gulch in 1876 while being chased by a posse of twenty armed men, or so the story goes. He was fleeing his gang's raid on the bank in Northfield, MN. Theoretically this jump is possible. The gap is reported to be between 18-20 feet, and horses have jumped over 27 feet. But the consequences for missing this jump is a plunge of six stories to Split Rock Creek into a pool said to be bottomless. Members of the posse claimed they saw Jesse make this jump and they did not dared to follow. A month later Jesse James returned home to Missouri. 

Stage Coach Arrives

Pink & Blue

Shed

Sun Reflecting

Wings and Beer

Big Sioux River

Old House

Abandoned

Oliver Lineup

Train

Pond Reflection

Road Closed

Jack The Mascot

Making Salsa

Turbin House

This is the ruins of the Queen Bee Mill that initiated the town of Sioux Falls, SD. There is a story here. A number of locals wanted to build a mill using the water that flowed over the falls, but the Minneapolis bankers were not willing to invest money for building the mill unless they could see that there was enough water to power a mill through the dry summer months when rain became intermittent. The bankers traveled to see the falls in the later summer. They were expected, so the locals built a temporary dam upstream from the falls and arranged to have the dam removed just before the bankers went to measure the water flow. Was this fraud? Most certainly it was, but they got the money to build this mill because the flow of water over the falls was substantial. Unfortunately the Queen Bee Mill only operated for about a year as there was insufficient grain grown locally to keep it in full operation. While the mill closed, the town of Sioux Falls became well established.

Diner

Railing

Crawford's

Clothes Sign

Limes and Lemons

Vishnu Bunny

Leaf