Their ravages were so widespread in extent, and the destruction following in their wake so complete, that many families were left destitute of the means of subsistence, and a still larger number was left, unable to again seed their land without assistance. The grasshopper visitation of 1874 will long be remembered by the older inhabitants. Knott & Nelson, the material of the old stone 'hotel' which stood in the middle of Main Street, just west of the Island, being thus utilized. The population of the town kept pace with the growth of the business interests, the school census taken in September showing the number of people residing in the town to be 593.Дuring the winter of 1874, the brewery was built by Messrs. Talbot hotels were built business houses established the old barracks were torn down in July, giving place to more modern architecture, and everything seemed to promise a brilliant future for Sioux Falls, without its having to pass through the customary stages of doubt and uncertainty so common at the settlement and building of. Land Office was located here June 9th the Sioux Falls mills were put in operation a brick yard was opened by D. A second newspaper, the Sioux Falls Independent, was established May 15th, by C. The year 1873 was one of exceptional prosperity to the then young town. Kiter with a printing office, while it undoubtedly entitled them to the appellation of 'first settlers,' caused no such excitement as had the arrival of new settlers in previous years. Petterson, carpenters and builders, and W. Surrounded as it is with clear water and projecting rocks, and, during the summer season, covered with a thick shade, through which comes the music of the waterfall just below, it is one of the most desirable, if not the most desirable, resort for pleasure seekers in all the great Northwest.ДЇrom 1871 the present town of Sioux Falls has had a very steady and constant growth, and here begins the following detailed history: This island is thickly covered with a heavy growth of choice hardwood timber. Just below the business portion of the town, the river divides and forms what is known as Brookings Island, an island containing about twenty acres. Here the water comes gliding along down the incline worn in the solid rocks by the incessant wash of the ages of the eternal past, until it meets an obstruction, where it seems to pause just long enough to form a graceful curve, and then plunges with a roar into the abyss below, where it moves forward in a seething, boiling mass, until another obstruction is met, which it leaps with a bound, a portion of the volume rising in the form of spray, making rainbows in the sunlight and falling like rain on the adjacent rocks, while the greater portion rushes on, impatient of restraint, until, the last barrier passed, it moves off quietly to the Missouri.

The general course of the river is south but its direction through this township is to every point of the compass, flowing north through the village and finding its way through the granite, quartz-like rocks that mark its banks. Anthony's, and surpassed in grandeur only by Niagara.

When we speak of these Falls we mean falls, not mere rapids the equal in beauty of St. As its name indicates, it is situated near the Falls of the Big Sioux River, which, being so uncommon in prairie countries, has given the place more than a mere local celebrity. The 'Capital of Minnehaha County,' which - by way of parenthesis, - we may state, occupies an elevation of 87.1 feet above Sioux City, Iowa, 25.8 feet above Yankton, and 1413 feet above the sea-level, is located on sections sixteen, seventeen and twenty-one, of town one hundred and one, range forty-nine. Sioux Falls History Minnehaha County South Dakota

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