Rockerville, South Dakota
human settlement in South Dakota, United States of America
Rockerville is a small unincorporated community in Pennington County in the Black Hills of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It originally started as a mining camp. It was named for the "rockers" which were used to separate placer gold from stream gravel.
Rockerville was founded in 1876 as the result of a gold rush.[1]
References
change- ↑ Hellmann, Paul T. (May 13, 2013). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. p. 997. ISBN 978-1135948597. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
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