Historic Sansarc Country School Museum & Orton School Bell
DeLoache B and Schiefelbein D. 2020. Historic Sansarc Country School Museum & Orton School Bell. South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office, South Dakota State Historical Society
From the History of the Schoolhouse: "The first Sansarc schoolhouse (East) built along Sansarc Creek in 1904 on George Walker's place, now Timmy Olson's place. There were Sans Arc Indian tribes in the area of Cheyenne River. Sans Arc can mean 'no bow' or 'unmarked arrows'. The Sans Arc Indians did not mark their arrows so they would all share the meat, rather than have all the meat go to only the brave who killed the bison. It is also thought they used spears instead of bow and arrows. Sansarc School (west) built around 1910 in Stanley County and used actively as a school until 1969. Phone service began in April 1960. Early it was on Jacobsen place. The last location was near Bernard Stoeser's place...." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office, South Dakota State Historical Society, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P19AF00014).
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- DeLoache, Betsey; Schiefelbein, Deb
- Date of Issue
- 2020-01
- Publisher
- South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office, South Dakota State Historical Society
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Historic Resource Studies (Single Resource)