Materials listed below are found at the Potter County Library. If you find something useful on the list, be sure to check the Dakota Sunset Museum for additional information not available through the library.
> 75 YEARS OF PROGRESS 1883-1958 : HOVEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
> 75 YEARS OF SULLY COUNTY 1883-1958
> 75th ANNIVERSARY, LEBANON, SOUTH DAKOTA
> 100 YEARS OF PROUD PEOPLE (SULLY COUNTY) 1883-1983
> 903rd REUNION – video 1997
> AGAR, SD, CENTENNIAL PHOTOS & INFORMATION from Edna Falkenhagen Smith Collection, compiled by Georga Sutton
> ALUMNI DIRECTORY : GETTYSBURG HIGH SCHOOL : 2000
> AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BOERGER
> BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE 1889-1989
> BREAKING SOD ON THE PRAIRIES by Clarence W. Taber - historical fiction set in Arena Township, Potter County, SD
> BULKLEY COMMUNITY
> Buller Family
> CATHEDRAL OF THE PRAIRIE - video
> CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS – Sutton Ranch history
> CEMETERY RECORDS FOR POTTER COUNTY, SD
> CLARENCE WILBUR TABER, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
> DAKOTA COWBOY by Ike Blasingame - nonfiction -- life at the time of the Matador Land and Cattle Company between Gettysburg, SD and Eagle Butte, SD.
> DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE & CAROLINE JELI 1845-1991 by Michael and Dianne Jeli – genealogy
> DESTINATION GETTYSBURG – video
> DIAMOND JUBILEE 1886-1961, BOWDLE, SD
> DuFLOTH Family History by Beulah M. DuFloth White
> ELIDA TOWNSHIP by Rella Frankhauser McIntosh
> FOREST CITY BRIDGE (SD DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION DOCUMENTS)
> FRANSEN FAMILY by Darrell Fransen -- genealogy
> GEORGE AND CHRISTINA RIPLEY FAMILY
> GEORGE B. VANCE - genealogy
> GETTYSBURG 1883-2008 SLIDE SHOW created by Dakota Sunset Museum
> GETTYSBURG CENTENNIAL STYLE SHOW – 1983 -- video
> GETTYSBURG: THE LEGACY LIVES ON -- video
> GETTYSBURG SOUTH DAKOTA 75TH ANNIVERSARY 1883-1958 – history
> GHS Class of 1956 reunion books
> GRANDPA AND GRANDMA MILLAR’S BIG HOUSE BY STONE LAKE by Millar – genealogy
> History of Sutton Ranch by Matt Sutton
> HOMESTEAD ATLAS, POTTER COUNTY
> HOVEN ALL FAITH CENTENNIAL - video
> HOVEN SOUTH DAKOTA 1883-1983 – history
> HOVEN, SOUTH DAKOTA - 25 YEAR SUPPLEMENT, 1983-2008, QUASQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
> IN THE WORLD WAR 1917-1918-1919 POTTER COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA
> IN THE SPIRIT OF McKAYLA by Vonnie Reuer and Rhonda Strouckel – music cassette
> POTTER COUNTY IN THIS WORLD WAR 1917-1918- 1919 - history
> INGA by Harold W. Anderson - Jordeth genealogy
> JORDETH by Inga Jordeth Haanstad -- genealogy
> LAST BRIDGE and A DISTANT PROMISE – both by Elvera Ziebart Reuer – WWII history
> LEBANON S.D. 1884-1984 – history
> LEBANON, SD - 125th CELEBRATION - home video by Merlyn Schutterle
> LEBANON CEMETERY RECORDS by Caroline Titze
> LeBEAU, A SPUTTERING GLAME by Dale and Mary Lewis
> Life Story of Heinrich Buller and His Wife Agnetha Duerksen Buller by William Buller
> LOOK BACK ONCE IN AWHILE by Ed Carlson -- memoirs
> LOWRY, SD 1907 - 2007; A PHOTO ESSAY by Ken Vogele & Lowryites
> MAGNIFICENT CHURCHES ON THE PRAIRIE by Coomber
> NOLD FAMILY, THE by Mary Ragatz Alexander - genealogy
> OBITUARY BOOK, POTTER COUNTY – 1883 to present
> OLIVER FAMILY HISTORY
> PIONEER ON THE PRAIRIE: THE LIFE OF IVAR SANDBERG by Gilbert Ivar Sandberg
> PHOTOS OF POTTER COUNTY PLACES 2008 (on CD)
> POTTER COUNTY PEOPLE PICTURES and PROGRESS : 1883-1983 – history of Gettysburg
> Prairie Minister's Wife by Arlue Nix Thomas
> Rausch Family http://www.rl-anc.com/index.php http://www.rauschherefords.com/
> RECIPES FOR THE HEART, THE HEARTH, THE HOME by children of Nick and Catherine Rausch – recipes and history
> SENECA CENTENNIAL book 1884-1984
> South Dakota Dept. of History Collections 1902 to present
> SULLY COUNTY CENTENNIAL PHOTO BOOK
> SULLY COUNTY QUASQUICENTENNIAL 1883-2008
> SUN RISES WITH THE HOVENS by Jeannette L. Anderson and committee -- history of Hoven Family and related families in Potter County, SD.
> SUTTON BOOK - genealogy
> TALE OF THREE FAMILIES by Elizabeth G. Longstreth -- Gillpatrick genealogy
> TOLSTOY BIOGRAPHIES and TOLSTOY DIAMOND JUBILEE HISTORICAL BOOK 1982
> TURKEY RED by Frances Gilchrist Wood - historical fiction>
> VAN BOCKEL FAMILY - genealogy
> VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR WHO SETTLED IN POTTER COUNTY DAKOTA TERRITORY by Winifred Fawcett and Thelma Hepper. ** Index online at Veterans book index
> WE ARE AMERICANS by Marion Cronin Crowley - genealogy
> WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH FIFTY CENTS by Ernie Nagel -- memoirs 1915-1980
> WHEN THE SOUTH WIND BLEW SOFTLY by Gertrude E. Flyte -- memoirs 1890-1973
> Online Potter County Database
Potter County History in the vertical file at the library includes Falk Family of North Riverside Township, Courthouse, Appomattox Township, Flood at Appomattox in 1890, Forest City, Gorman, Homestead Records, (separate book of Homestead Records Index), Hoven burials, LeBeau Community, Mary Duenwald Arbach Hoven, Turkey Red by Frances Gilchrist Wood, Tolstoy, Schools Rural, R E A & Cam-Wal, Medicine Rock,
Genealogy Trails Online ----- Potter County link
Your Potter County ancestor just might be in one of these books which can be found either at the Potter County Library or at the Dakota Sunset Museum. Some are now online as well.
Doane Robinson's Encyclopedia of South Dakota, c1925
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. I, S.J. Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 2, S.J. Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 3, S.J. Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 4, S.J. Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 5, S.J. Clarke Publishing, c1915
MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD AND ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY, Published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co, c1890. [includes A.G. and Morris Williams]
COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY [includes biographical sketches from Central South Dakota] -- rebound, title page missing, but spine says 1899, appears to be another volume of MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD AND ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY, Published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co -- includes A.G. and Morris Williams, but biosketches are not identical to the 1890 edition.
HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA by Doane Robinson together with personal mention of citizens of South Dakota, Vol I. B. F. Bowen & Co., 1904.
HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA by Doane Robinson together with personal mention of citizens of South Dakota. Vol. 2, B.F. Bowen & Co., c1904.
Bound volumes of SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS; ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS compiled by the State Historical Society beginning with Vol. 1, 1902 and continuing through 2013. Includes Cumulative Index compiled in 1989. Missing volumes: The 1910 Volume 5.
GETTYSBURG's 75th ANNIVERSARY (1883-1958) book is for sale at the Potter County Library.
GETTYSBURG'S 100th Anniversary book (Potter County People, Pictures, and Progress 1883-1983) is for sale at the Dakota Sunset Museum.
None of the information in the 75th Anniversary book is duplicated in the 100th Anniversary Book.
SD War Memorials
South Dakota Veterans Memorials
Virtual Wall of all those lost during the Vietnam War http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm Click on your State.Scroll down to your city.Soldiers’ names are listed beneath the city name.Click on a name to see a picture of the soldier, his medals, and the link to the database for his military and casualty info.
