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Encyclopedia Britannica



YANKTON

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 903 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
YANKTON , a city and the county-seat of Yankton county,
South
  Dakota, U.S.A., on the left bank of the Missouri river, about 6o m. N.W. of Sioux City, Iowa. Pop. (1900) 4125 (85o foreign-born); (1910) 3787. It is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the
Great
  Northern, and the Chicago & North-Western railways. The Missouri is navigable at this, point, and the city has a considerable river traffic. Yankton is the seat of Yankton College (founded by Congregationalists in 1881, opened in 1882; now non-sectarian). The city is built on a nearly level
plateau
 , averaging about 1200 ft. above the sea-level. It is in a rich grain-growing and stock-raising
district
 , has grain-elevators, and manufactures flour, beer and cement. The water
supply
  is obtained from artesian wells. The first permanent
settlement
 , a trading post, was made here in 1858, when a treaty was concluded with the Yankton Indians. This was the first
settlement
  made in the Missouri Valley in Dakota. Yankton was laid out in 1859, first chartered as a city in x869, rechartered in 1873, and in 1910 adopted a commission form of government. In 186182 Yankton was the
capital
  of the Territory of Dakota. The name is a corruption of the Sioux name Ihanktonwan, meaning " end
village
 ."


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