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This week in South Dakota history: Oct. 31-Nov. 6

The first white man to build a cabin where the town of Yankton would come to be established died a century ago this week.

That’s according to the Nov. 5, 1925, edition of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, which recounted the origin story of the former Dakota Territory capital city alongside the death notice of 85-year-old C.J. Holman, who nearly seven decades earlier was among the pioneers to begin settling the area while incorrectly assuming the Yankton Sioux tribe that occupied the land had relinquished control to the U.S. government.

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