Off U.S. 83, Fort Pierre, South Dakota. County/parish: Stanley.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 07, 1974. NRIS 74001899.
1 contributing site.
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 arms 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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205658