This gallery features a variety of images related to the settlement of Gayville, Dakota Territory. Our thanks to LCHS President Jerry Bryant of Deadwood for pulling together and sharing these materials.
Thanks to Jerry Bryant for making available this Rand McNally & Co.'s Map: Northern Portions-Black Hills, dated 1877. To better read the finer print, click on the image and select the desired size from the menu at the top of the page. The map plate carries the following message:
This is the only Map of the Black Hills ever compiled from actual survey. The survey was made at the expense of much time and money, by Major George Henckel, Deputy United States Surveyor, and its correctness is acknowledged by many reliable parties who have personal knowledge of the Black Hills Country.
Gen. Wm. P. Dewey, U.S. Surveyor General says: “Mr. George Henckel, who is a surveyor, and otherwise competent man, is recently from the Black Hills, Dakota, where he has spent the past season, engineering and surveying in the mining districts, and has thereby and therein collected much valuable and reliable information regarding that new and rich country. He has at much expense and labor executed a map of the Black Hills Country, and the principal mining districts therein, and I have carefully examined his map, and pronounce it a most excellent exhibition of the geography of the Black Hills and mining country…. He holds the appointment of U.S. Deputy Surveyor under me.”
WM. P. DEWEY, U.S. Surveyor General
This is the only Map of the Black Hills ever compiled from actual survey. The survey was made at the expense of much time and money, by Major George Henckel, Deputy United States Surveyor, and its correctness is acknowledged by many reliable parties who have personal knowledge of the Black Hills Country.
Gen. Wm. P. Dewey, U.S. Surveyor General says: “Mr. George Henckel, who is a surveyor, and otherwise competent man, is recently from the Black Hills, Dakota, where he has spent the past season, engineering and surveying in the mining districts, and has thereby and therein collected much valuable and reliable information regarding that new and rich country. He has at much expense and labor executed a map of the Black Hills Country, and the principal mining districts therein, and I have carefully examined his map, and pronounce it a most excellent exhibition of the geography of the Black Hills and mining country…. He holds the appointment of U.S. Deputy Surveyor under me.”
WM. P. DEWEY, U.S. Surveyor General
A photograph of William Gay. He and his brother platted Gayville. Jerry Bryant of Deadwood tells us that Gay was hanged for murder in Montana, where this photograph was taken.
Gayville, Dakota Territory. Undated.
The Hildebrant 20 stamp mill located in Gayville, Dakota Territory. Undated.
The Gayville Toll House. Undated.
Apparently, $1.80 was the sum necessary for the Deadwood Terra Mining Company to satisfy the Deadwood and Gayville Toll Road for September 1882. Our thanks to the Black Hills Mining Museum in Lead for making this document available.
The Gayville planing mill. Undated.
This receipt from the Gayville Foundry and Machine Shop, dated October 27, 1877, reflected a transaction with the "Home Stake Saw Mill."
Our thanks to the Black Hills Mining Museum in Lead for making this available.
Our thanks to the Black Hills Mining Museum in Lead for making this available.
A closeup of the Gayville area from an 1877 map of the northern Black Hills region of Dakota Territory. It was created from a survey done by George Henckel, Deputy United States Surveyor.
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