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Mount Roosevelt Friendship Tower

Deadwood, SD

Seth Bullock built this stone tower in 1919 as a memorial to his friend Theodore Roosevelt. Reaching it requires a short climb above Deadwood, where the handmade tower rises unexpectedly from the forest like a small medieval ruin.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: deadwood.com/business/attractions/mt-roosevelt-memorial-friendship-tower/

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