Historic Highway Map Marker Iona

The crusader on this small bronze was Edward L. Senn, who at one time owned as many as fifty-one South Dakota newspapers, the kind of frontier paper that lived on the final-proof notices homesteaders had to publish. Iona was one of his stops; here, the bronze says, he fought cattle rustlers in print and lost a paper to fire. From 1909 he published the Deadwood Daily Telegram, crusading against saloons and vice, and he became the state's federal Prohibition director. Iona's post office dates from February 1898.

What the plaque says

Historic Highway Iona established 11 Feb. 1898, Ray Gooder, Postmaster. Here E. L. Senn, newspaper crusader fought the cattle rustlers and lost his news- paper by fire in early days. Erected 1956 by Iona Township and Highway Commission

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dignity of Earth and Sky — 18 mi
  A fifty-foot stainless-steel Lakota woman on the bluff above the Missouri, her star quilt made of 128 blue diamonds that shiver in the wind.
• Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center — 20 mi
  A museum on the campus of a Catholic boarding school for Lakota children founded in 1927, built from gifts of the school's alumni and named to honor the people.

More markers nearby

• White River — 16 mi
• American Island — 19 mi