Sioux Falls, a city, capital of Minnehaha co., S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River and on the Great Northern and other railroads, about 60 miles NNE. of Yankton. It has a government building, a Federal penetentiary, state school for deaf-mutes, Sioux Falls College, All Saints' School, Lutheran Normal School, and manufactures of agricultural implements, wind-mills, vehicles, creamery supplies, etc. There are extensive rock-quarries in the vicinity. Pop. in 1900, 10,266. The river here falls nearly 100 feet.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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