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Spearfish, SD - History
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Welcome to the Spearfish Home page. The Spearfish Home page provides as much information as possible on Spearfish. Knowing Spearfish’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Spearfish’s Home page, you will also find Spearfish’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Spearfish has a population of 11702. 48.3% of Spearfish’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 40.3% of Spearfish is married and 51.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $221,352, and the average rent is $821. Household median income in Spearfish is $50,072, and the individual median income is $25,465. Spearfish’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.5%), Multiple(3.1%), Native(2.3%), Hispanic(1.9%), Asian(1.4%), Black(0.7%), Pacific(0.1%).
Before the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876, the area was used by Native Americans (primarily bands of Sioux but others also ranged through the area). Once the gold rush started, the city was founded in 1876 at the mouth of Spearfish Canyon, and was originally called Queen City. Spearfish grew as a supplier of foodstuffs to the mining camps in the hills.
Even today, a significant amount of truck farming and market gardening still occurs in the vicinity. In 1887, the accepted history of gold mining in the Black Hills was thrown into question by the discovery of what has become known as the Thoen Stone. Discovered by Louis Thoen on Lookout Mountain, the stone purports to be the last testament of Ezra Kind who, along with six others, entered the Black Hills in 1833, "got all the gold we could carry" in June 1834, and were subsequently "killed by Indians beyond the high hill." There is corroborating historical evidence for the Ezra Kind party.In the 20th century, the history of Spearfish was tied to mining and tourism.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who visited Spearfish Canyon in 1935, later called the area "unique and unparalleled elsewhere in our country," and wondered, "How is it that I've heard so little of this miracle and we, toward the Atlantic, have heard so much of the Grand Canyon when this is even more miraculous?"The Homestake Sawmill (previously part of Pope and Talbot, now owned by Neimen Forest Products) was built to supply timbers for the Homestake Mine in Lead (closed January 2002).
In 1938, Joseph Meier brought the Luenen Passion Play to settle permanently in Spearfish and become the Black Hills Passion Play, drawing thousands of visitors every year during the summer months. After Meier's death in 2007, the amphitheater and 23 acres (93,000 m2) surrounding it were put up for sale.
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