South Dakota -- Minnehaha County

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This series consists of audit reports for state agencies, counties, municipalities, and school districts. Audit reports contain financial statements concerning receipts and expenditures; commentary on recordkeeping practices; and suggestions for improving those procedures.

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This series contains civil case records from 1860 to 1880. These files are organized by case number

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This series contains eight microfilm rolls of various Minnehaha County records including will records, inventory and appraisement records, estate exempt, and will records dating from 1890 to 1967. Records are not inclusive or complete and offer only specific books and dates.

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This record group contains records created and/or maintained by officials and employees of the City of Hartford, South Dakota. Records include correspondence, city council minutes, subject files, bills and receipts, financial reports and statements, budgets, agreements, liquor license applications, poll books, registration lists, complaints, and tax assessment books.

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This series contains legal action files including court transcripts and other documents issued by the Municipal Court of Minnehaha County dating 1971 to 1978. These files are organized by case number.

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This record group contains records created and maintained by county government agencies and officials in Minnehaha County, South Dakota and includes birth records; election and voter records; school and student records; property assessment books; case records and legal action files; construction contracts; livestock registers; tax lists; and jail records of commitments and releases.

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This series contains mortgagee indexes and tax lists for Minnehaha County. The mortgagee indexes range in date from 1904 to 1918, and the tax lists vary by township and range in date from 1912-1914.

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This series contains the case files of individuals who received assistance from the Works Progress Administration program in different counties throughout South Dakota. Buffalo, Clay, Mcpherson, Meade, Miner and Minnehaha County are accounted for within this series. Records are arranged alphabetically by county. There is an index for these counties at the back of the box which is not restricted.

Scope and Contents This series contains ten microfilm rolls of prisoner in-take files dating from 1964 to1971as well as various jail and sheriff records including 13 pages of the sheriff’s day book dating from 1884 to 1885 and the jail register dating from 1879 to 1969. The prisoner in-take files include personal information of the prisoner such as home address and race as well as a list of items such as clothing and any weapons found on the person when arrested. The sheriff’s day book and jail register...

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Consists of audio recordings of public hearings held by the Department of Transportation between 1978 and 1980 concerning various highway projects throughout South Dakota.

Scope and Contents This accession consists of seventy volumes of original appraisal records (circa 1918-1920) for lands adjacent to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad in various counties throughout South Dakota. Records within each valuation section volume include plat maps of lands adjacent to the railroad right-of-way and the assessed valuations of those properties; geographical and topographical descriptions of the surrounding environment; appraisal questionnaires completed by local residents...

Scope and Contents This series contains the memorandum of agreement, bridge safety inspection reports, cultural resources survey report, photo log and digital photographs documenting Bridge #50-215-010 in Minnehaha County. These records were compiled as mitigation for the demolition and removal of the structure. All digital files, which include photographs and scanned versions of the reports and photo log, are saved to a DVD-R. Photographs are saved as JPG and TIF files; reports are saved as PDF, TIF, and DOCX...

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This series consists of photographs (digital, prints, and negatives), sketches, plans, and other documentation submitted to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to mitigate adverse effects to five historic bridges and structures. These structures include: a Minnehaha County bridge, the Fairfax water tower, a stone culvert on the BNSF railroad near Garretson, the Jerry Bennett farm barn, and the Elwood C. Lyle wind-powered mill.

Scope and Contents This series contains documentation on two separate bridge mitigation projects in Minnehaha County. The first project is for structure 50-032-060 in Buffalo Township near Humboldt (SHPO Project No. 180302005F). There are 17 digital photos of the bridge, taken on April 12, 2018 by Melissa Schmidt. There are PDFs of structure reports completed by Minnehaha County from 1992-2017. Additionally, there is copy of a South Dakota Historic Bridge Inventory Form completed in March 2005, which was...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of loyalty oaths signed by employees of the Sioux Falls Independent School District No. 1 from 1970 through 1974. As per Article 3 section 8 of the State Constitution, teachers were required to sign loyalty oaths to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of South Dakota. The employees also will not join a political party or organization that advocates for the overthrow of the government.Oaths are organized by year...

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Contains a structure inspection report from 1984 for bridge #50-281-180 located 1/2 mile south of Brandon in Minnehaha County and includes repair and posting recommendations, drawings, and photographs of the structure.

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This series contains a summons and general power of attorney records dating from 1934 to 1935.

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This series contains the case files of individuals who received assistance from the Works Progress Administration program in different counties throughout South Dakota. Buffalo, Clay, Mcpherson, Meade, Miner and Minnehaha County are accounted for within this series. Records are arranged alphabetically by county. There is an index for these counties at the back of the box which is not restricted. See file list for more information.