Pickstown’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Pickstown. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Pickstown began as a government town for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees building and then operating nearby Fort Randall Dam. United States Air Force officers and airmen arrived in the 1950s to operate a Strategic Air Command radar base built on a hill three miles east of town, locally known as "Radar Hill". Air Force personnel left in the 1970s after the base closed. Currently, the "Fort Randall Casino and Hotel" owned and operated by the Yankton Sioux Tribe is located at the abandoned radar base.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owned Pickstown until the town incorporated in 1985.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Pickstown’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pickstown’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewLewis A Pick, c. 1959: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Pickstown
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Pickstown, decade by decade
1990s
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1 historic place in Pickstown
1 place in Pickstown is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Lewis A Pick (c. 1959) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.