Mitchell, South Dakota

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The World's Only Corn Palace RoadyGoat

1892

At 604 North Main Street in Mitchell stands the World's Only Corn Palace, a Moorish-domed civic hall whose exterior murals are rebuilt every year entirely out of crops. The first Corn Palace went up in 1892 to prove that young South Dakota could grow things and to lure settlers; the current building dates to 1921, and the onion domes and minarets were added in 1937. Each year artists design fresh murals and workers nail them up using naturally colored corn cut in half lengthwise, plus other grains and native grasses — roughly three hundred twenty-five thousand ears and a million-plus nails go into a single season's panels. The old murals come down at the end of August and the new ones are finished by October. It still hosts basketball games, concerts and the fall Corn Palace Festival.

Corn Palace: Mitchell's Monument to the Harvest

1892

Since 1892, Mitchell has decorated its civic auditorium with elaborate murals made entirely from corn, grain, and native grasses, drawing half a million visitors a year to the self-proclaimed Corn Capital of the World.

The Great Sioux Agreement of 1889: How Dakota Became Two States

1889

On November 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed proclamations admitting both North Dakota and South Dakota as states, deliberately shuffling the documents so that neither could claim to have been admitted first.

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