South Dakota State Census, 1895

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French explorers are known to have made their way to what is now South Dakota as early as 1743. The Spanish held dominion over the land for the first part of the eighteenth century, but South Dakota was sold to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. By the late 1800s, there were enough people in the territory to create two states. Thus, the U.S. Congress approved the division of the territory creating the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889. This database is an index to the first official state census in 1895. The following counties are represented in this census: Beadle, Butte, Pratt (now Jones), Presho (now Lyman), Campbell, and Charles Mix.

Sources Ancestry.com. South Dakota State Census, 1895. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. Original data: Data indexed from images from the South Dakota State Archives microfilm collection.

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