Yankton Stockade

The same chapter came back to this corner in June 1936 and set a second tablet just east of the boulder, at Broadway and West Third, a stone-and-bronze roll of the men of Company A of the Dakota Militia. It carries eighty names, among them John Randall Hanson and James Eliot Witherspoon, whom the town knew as Limber Jim. The City of Yankton's guide to its historic markers calls that roster the town's earliest history in bronze. The boulder beside it, placed in 1917, is nineteen years older.

What the plaque says

This boulder marks the site of The Yankton Stockade in which the people of the surrounding country took refuge during the Sioux outbreak of 1862 Placed by Daniel Newcomb Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1917

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spirit Mound Historic Prairie — 22 mi
  A lone hill north of Vermillion that Lewis and Clark walked to on a scorching day in 1804, now one of the few places left where you can stand exactly where they stood.
• Santee Sioux Nation Museum — 23 mi
  The Isanti Dakota nation's museum and research room beside its headquarters at Santee, with census rolls from 1866, the mission school's photographs and a Dakota-language newspaper that ran for 68 years.

More markers nearby

• First Dakota National Bank of Yankton — steps away
• East Wall Yankton Stockade — steps away
• North Wall Yankton Stockade — steps away
• West Wall Yankton Stockade — steps away