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| The idea: to "lay out a Denver" at the edge of the Black Hills. The location: the lush valley where the largest eastern-flowing stream rolls from the Black Hills. | |
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This was the concept of Rapid City. Literally a city thought
up by unlucky gold miners trying to cash in on the great gold rush of
the Black Hills. John Brennan and his party of miners found little gold
in Palmer Gulch, but they had a much bigger idea for getting rich. Build
a city that miners and visitors would pass through on their way into and
out of the Black Hills.
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| In 1876, a city plan was drawn up by Brennan. The new city would be built at the eastern foothills in the green valley where the largest river flowed out of the mountains. The river was known as Rapid Creek, so the town to be built on its bank would be called Rapid City. | |
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