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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 903 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YANKTON , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Yankton county, See also:South Dakota, U.S.A., on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Missouri See also:river, about 6o m. N.W. of See also:Sioux City, See also:Iowa. Pop. (1900) 4125 (85o See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 3787. It is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul, the See also:Great See also:Northern, and the Chicago & See also:North-Western See also:railways. The Missouri is navigable at this, point, and the city has a considerable river See also:traffic. Yankton is the seat of Yankton See also:College (founded by Congregationalists in 1881, opened in 1882; now non-sectarian). The city is built on a nearly level See also:plateau, averaging about 1200 ft. above the See also:sea-level. It is in a See also:rich See also:grain-growing and stock-raising See also:district, has grain-See also:elevators, and manufactures See also:flour, See also:beer and See also:cement. The See also:water See also:supply is obtained from artesian See also:wells. The first permanent See also:settlement, a trading See also:post, was made here in 1858, when a treaty was concluded with the Yankton See also: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 See also:

commission See also:form of See also:government. In 1861—82 Yankton was the See also:capital of the Territory of Dakota.

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