SCOUTING YESTERDAY | From deadlock to landmark, Carnegie gift brought bickering, divisions to Sioux Falls
This week in South Dakota history
Where to build a shrine to literacy?
That was the question that had some of Sioux Falls’ earliest citizens at odds 125 years ago.
The Sioux Falls City Council was stuck in a deadlock, with representatives from the city’s north and south ends determined to build the new Carnegie Library on their side of town, according to the April 23, 1901, edition of the Argus Leader.
