Milbank's
Past
Photo
Gallery
early 1900s - ?
This page contains a collection of pictures from Milbank's historic past. Click on each image for a larger view.
This is a real photo postcard (Not a printed lithograph) picturing a
view of a log cabin set up downtown Milbank, SD. Sign on top
of the building reads: M.W.A. Team 1887 - Welcome Neighbors -
Headquarters. Some of the old timers set in front of the
building. Card was mailed to a Mr. A.L. French in Helper, UT.
Very detailed message about everyday life in 1908. MWA-Modern
Woodmen of America.
Postmark: Milbank, SDAK 1908.
The Grant County Courthouse: year unknown
This picture was taken atop the Grant County Review
building around 1900. It shows the M.E. Church and the post office can
be found just below the small, black "X" in the middle of the stores on the
right side of the street.
This goes with the picture to the left. Written
on the back of the photograph,
it explains what is shown on the front.
Milbank High School: early 1900s
This picture of Milbank High School was taken in 1906.
It was located where the old middle school is presently located.
(Thanks, Dave!)
The picture above was taken in 1940. Do you know
where it was located? Well, I received this message from Debbie Dietman on
9/19/05:
"Greg – I believe my mother baby sat
for you when you were little (do you have a brother named Kevin?) Her name
was Edith Dobson. I am writing you because I believe I know where the
picture of the high school was taken. It looks a lot like the school where I
went to Kindergarten, and later to 4th through 7th
grades, (about 1960-63.) It was located behind what was then the high school
(and later the middle school.) There was a tunnel that ran between the two
schools. I may be wrong, as I don’t remember there being a dome on the top,
but it did have three stories, the bottom one being partially underground,
and shaped like the school in the photo."
Thanks for the info, Debbie!!
Milbank High School: taken in 1942, a year before it
would burn down
1905 Milbank
Main Street Furniture-McGowan Lumber
1906 Milbank-- Bird's Eye View
This 1908 postcard shows 4th Street in Milbank.
A postcard of Milbank which was used in 1909
Milbank's artificial lake around 1910
This is the back of the postcard (picture at left is the front).
Residence Street around 1925--B. Snaza house on right side of street?
St. Lawrence Church on the left and the school on the right: date unknown
Milbank's post office taken around the 1930s
Milbank's Main Street in 1952...Click on the picture for a larger view