The New International Encyclopædia/Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS. The county seat of Minnehaha County, S. D., 90 miles north of Sioux City, Iowa; on the Big Sioux River, here spanned by four bridges, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, the Great Northern, the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads (Map: South Dakota, J 6). It has the Sioux Falls College (Baptist), a Lutheran Normal School, All Saints School, and the State School for Deaf Mutes. Other prominent features are the State and Federal Penitentiary, Children's Home, the United States Government building, the court-house, and the public library. Sioux Falls is surrounded by a section engaged in farming and cattle-raising, but is chiefly important as the centre of extensive stone-quarrying and manufacturing interests. There are boiler and sheet iron works, a flouring mill, bottling establishments, and carriage and broom manufactories. The government is vested in a mayor, chosen biennially, and a unicameral council. Settled in 1867, Sioux Falls was incorporated as a village in 1877, and was chartered as a city in 1883. Population, in 1890, 10,177; in 1900, 10,266.