Verendrye Site
Fort Pierre, US
The Verendrye Site is an historical archaeological site off Verendrye Drive in Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota, United States. Now a small public park, it is the place where the La Vérendrye brothers, the first known Europeans to explore this area, placed a lead plate bearing the coat of a
rms of France, to claim the territory for their homeland, during their 1742–1743 expedition to the Rocky Mountains. This site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991. A monument has been erected at the site to explain the history.
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- Fort Pierre Congregational Church chiese · 0.4 km away
- Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge monumenti · 2 km away
- Methodist Episcopal Church chiese · 3 km away
- Hughes County Courthouse monumenti · 3 km away
- Campidoglio beni_culturali · 3 km away
- South Dakota State Library library · 4 km away
- Cultural Heritage Center musei · 4 km away
- South Dakota Women's Prison prison · 6 km away