The following excerpts are from an article in the November 2, 2009 edition of the Rapid City Journal.
The archives at Deadwood’s City Hall hold shelves filled with voting records, county inventory and appraisal ledgers, probate ledgers and other circuit court documents dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s.
Many of those documents nearly ended up in the landfill. Mark Wolfe, who was hired in 1990 as Deadwood’s first historic preservation officer, literally pulled some of the county ledger books out of a Dumpster at the county courthouse, then stored them in the basement of David Larson and Mary Dunne’s business until there was a place for them at City Hall.
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Other collections soon will be available, as well.
The Homestake Adams Research & Cultural Center, which will house the Homestake Mining Co. collection and Adams House and Museum collections, is slated to open next summer. The Days of ’76 Museum, projected to open in 2011, will focus on rodeo and cowboy culture.
Eventually, searchable databases for the various archives will be tied together online, officials said.
