Centennial Time Capsule

The capsule went into the ground on July 25, 1964, a week short of the hundredth anniversary of the day the 30th Wisconsin began the fort, August 1, 1864. Nine committee names follow on the plaque, among them Robert Perry, the man whose petitions had made the fort a state park in 1959. Since the capsule was sealed the fort has been listed on the National Register, on May 10, 1973, and each June brings a three-day festival of cavalry camps and a costume ball. Beside it a brick pillar carries the WPA's 1939 rebuilding plaque.

What the plaque says

Centennial Time Capsule In Cement Block, beneath this Marker Placed July 25, 1964 - To be opened at Bicentennial Observance of Fort Sisseton July 25, 2064 Northeast South Dakota Lake Region Association Centennial Committee

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Sisseton Historic State Park — steps away
  A stone fort on the Coteau des Prairies built to watch the Dakota after 1862, renamed for the Sisseton who scouted for it, restored by the WPA and saved again by a boy who grew up loving it.
• Sica Hollow State Park — 16 mi
  Wooded ravines on the edge of the Coteau, on the Lake Traverse Reservation, where the springs run iron-red and the Dakota tell of a good land gone bad.
• Joseph N. Nicollet Tower and Interpretive Center — 20 mi
  A tower on the edge of the Coteau des Prairies honoring the French mapmaker who drew this country in 1838 and 1839 and kept the Dakota names on the map.

More markers nearby

• Fort Wadsworth 1864 Fort Sisseton 1876 — 6.2 mi
• Pioneering in Dakota — 14 mi
• The Continental Divide — 14 mi
• Frank Farrar: 24th Governor of South Dakota — 14 mi