Pedro
Populated area
Pedro is located in South Dakota
Pedro
Pedro
Coordinates: 44°25′12″N 102°07′08″W / 44.42°N 102.119°W / 44.42; -102.119
CountryUnited States
StateSouth Dakota
CountyPennington
Elevation
2,031 ft (619 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST)

Pedro is a populated place in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.[1] Pedro once had a population of 300 and had its own newspaper, the Pedro Bugle, but is now a ghost town.[2]

History

The community's name was selected during a session of the card game Pedro.[3]

Carrie Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) worked for E.L. Senn (who owned as many as fifty-one newspapers in South Dakota at that time)[4] in Pedro, which was not too far from her claim. By the summer of 1909, she was the manager working for Senn at the Pedro Bugle[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Pedro - Local Area Photos and Information". SD HomeTown Locator. HTL. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
  2. ^ "Carrie Ingalls". Keystone Area Historical Society. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  3. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 56.
  4. ^ E.L.Senn on pioneergirlproject.org
  5. ^ Carrie Ingalls profile on Keystone Area Historical Society Official Homepage
  6. ^ Carrie Ingalls on littlehousediscussion.blogspot.com
  7. ^ Carrie Ingalls on littlehouseontheprairie.com


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