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Ghost town in South Dakota, United States
Pedro
Ghost town
Pedro is located in South DakotaPedroPedro
Coordinates: 44°25′12″N 102°07′08″W / 44.42°N 102.119°W / 44.42; -102.119
CountryUnited States
StateSouth Dakota
CountyPennington
Elevation2,031 ft (619 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST)

Pedro is a populated place in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. Pedro once had a population of 300 and had its own newspaper, the Pedro Bugle, but is now a ghost town.

History

The community's name was selected during a session of the card game Pedro.

Carrie Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) worked for E.L. Senn (who owned as many as fifty-one newspapers in South Dakota at that time) in Pedro, which was not too far from her claim. By the summer of 1909, she was the manager working for Senn at the Pedro Bugle

References

  1. "Pedro - Local Area Photos and Information". SD HomeTown Locator. HTL. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
  2. "Carrie Ingalls". Keystone Area Historical Society. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 56.
  4. E.L.Senn on pioneergirlproject.org
  5. Carrie Ingalls profile on Keystone Area Historical Society Official Homepage
  6. Carrie Ingalls on littlehousediscussion.blogspot.com
  7. Carrie Ingalls on littlehouseontheprairie.com
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County seat: Rapid City
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Footnotes‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties


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