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[[File:Golden-Gate-City-South-Dakota-1877.jpg|thumb|right|200px|1877 Map showing townsite]][[Golden Gate City, South Dakota]] was a small mining town west of the Deadwood area, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.   It appears on maps from the 1870s-1880s, but no longer appears on later maps.   
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[[File:Golden-Gate-City-South-Dakota-1877.jpg|thumb|right|200px|1877 Map showing townsite]][[Golden Gate City, South Dakota]] was a small mining town west of the Deadwood area, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.<ref>[http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/pubs/PAPERS_PUBLICATIONS/Dakota%20Place%20Names.pdf Dakota Place Names], John A Van Balen.</ref>  It appears on maps from the 1870s-1880s, but no longer appears on later maps.   
  
 
Based on the 1877 Rand McNally map of the Black Hills, Golden Gate was located just west of Gayville (now Central City), about a mile and a half along Deadwood Creek Road.
 
Based on the 1877 Rand McNally map of the Black Hills, Golden Gate was located just west of Gayville (now Central City), about a mile and a half along Deadwood Creek Road.
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Latest revision as of 21:15, 29 January 2012

1877 Map showing townsite

Golden Gate City, South Dakota was a small mining town west of the Deadwood area, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.[1] It appears on maps from the 1870s-1880s, but no longer appears on later maps.

Based on the 1877 Rand McNally map of the Black Hills, Golden Gate was located just west of Gayville (now Central City), about a mile and a half along Deadwood Creek Road.


References

  1. Dakota Place Names, John A Van Balen.