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Oahe Chapel

Pierre, SD

This small church is one of the few surviving buildings from the community displaced by construction of Oahe Dam and reservoir. It was moved before the rising water covered the original townsite, preserving a physical fragment of a vanished Missouri River settlement.

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

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Source: history.sd.gov/preservation/oahechapel.aspx

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