Verendrye Site

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Verendrye Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Monument at the site
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Location	Fort Pierre, South Dakota
Coordinates	44°21′20″N 100°22′43″W / 44.35556°N 100.37861°W / 44.35556; -100.37861Coordinates: 44°21′20″N 100°22′43″W / 44.35556°N 100.37861°W / 44.35556; -100.37861
NRHP Reference #	74001899^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 7, 1974^[2]
Designated NHL	July 17, 1991^[1]

Verendrye Site is an archaeological site in Stanley County, South Dakota, United States, in the city of Fort Pierre. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991.^[1]^[3]

At the time of the designation in 1991, it was stated:

Here, in late March 1743, the Verendryes, the first Europeans to explore the northern plains region of the present United States, secreted a lead plate beneath a pile of stones. Sixty-one years before Lewis and Clark first arrived in this area, these French explorers, in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific, lay the basis for French sovereignty on the Upper Missouri, seeking to define the bounds of French Louisiana to include the entire Mississippi River drainage.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 "Verendrye Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Charleton, James H. (Dec 1990). "La Verendrye Site" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination. National Park Service.

External links

Verendrye Site - National Park Service

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota

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