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1. www.nps.gov › hosp › learnHistory & Culture - Hot Springs National Park (U.S. National ...

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   In 1882-83 the government enclosed Hot Springs creek in an underground arch for flood and sewerage control. The arch was then covered with earth, and the area above it was landscaped to create a pleasing park bounded with Lombardy poplars.

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2. truewestmagazine.com › article › hot-springs-southHot Springs, South Dakota - True West Magazine

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   Aug 29, 2011 · The Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne fought over what eventually gave Hot Springs, South Dakota, its name in 1882: the natural warm waters. “Fred Evans was the one who really developed Hot Springs in its early days. He was a promoter out of Sioux City in Iowa,” Eddie Clay says.

3. www.britannica.com › place › Hot-Springs-South-DakotaHot Springs | Thermal Pools, Healing Waters, Native American ...

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   Settled in 1879 as Minnekahta (a Sioux word meaning “Hot Waters”), it was renamed Hot Springs in 1882 and developed as a health resort. A large natural-warm-water indoor pool built in 1890, the Evans Plunge, remains a tourist attraction.

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4. www.historynet.com › battle-hot-springs-gamblersBattle of the Hot Springs Gamblers - HistoryNet

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   Aug 18, 2017 · Toler himself was killed in a March 16, 1899, gunfight on Central Avenue, the climax of a dispute between the Hot Springs Police Department and Garland County Sheriff’s Office (see the feature “Lawmen’s Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs” in the October 2002 Wild West).

5. blackhillsvisitor.com › learn › about-hot-springsThe Story of Hot Springs - Black Hills Visitor

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   Jul 16, 2018 · When European settlers arrived in the latter half of the 19th century, they originally called the town by its Lakota name, Minnekahta, but changed it to the easier-to-pronounce Hot Springs in 1882.

6. www.nps.gov › hosp › learnThe Almost Shoot Out of 1884 - Hot Springs National Park (U.S ...

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   May 6, 2020 · The Almost Shoot Out of 1884. In 1882, Congress authorized the War Department to construct the Army-Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs and allocated $100,000 to pay for it. In 1884, workers began diverting hot springs water to assist with construction.

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   What happened in hot springs?

   • Toler himself was killed in a March 16, 1899, gunfight on Central Avenue, the climax of a dispute between the Hot Springs Police Department and Garland County Sheriff’s Office (see the feature “Lawmen’s Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs” in the October 2002 Wild West ). Five men were killed that even bloodier day in Hot Springs.

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   What happened at Hot Springs in 1883?

   • When S.A. Doran arrived at Hot Springs in early December 1883, he was not alone. He’d brought with him Dave and Bob Pruitt, known gamblers from Mississippi who had each killed men in gunfights. The trio set about to reopen Jim Lane’s Monarch and Palace saloons and gambling halls.

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   Why did people go to hot springs in the 1880s?

   • Major S.A. Doran’s gang ambushed Frank ‘Boss Gambler’ Flynn and two of his brothers in February 1884, triggering an exchange as deadly as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Most people who traveled to Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1880s did so to soak in the mineral baths in hopes of improving their physical health.

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   What happened to Hot Springs Reservation?

   • Just as Hot Springs Reservation was reestablished as government property, a devastating fire swept up the valley, destroying most of the south and central downtown area but leaving the Arlington and Grand Central Hotels, the Hale, Rector, and Big Iron Bathhouses, and the buildings to their north.

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   How did Hot Springs Creek get built?

   • Building, landscaping, and engineering projects proceeded apace. In 1882-83 the government enclosed Hot Springs creek in an underground arch for flood and sewerage control. The arch was then covered with earth, and the area above it was landscaped to create a pleasing park bounded with Lombardy poplars.

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   Why did the Hot Springs divert water?

   • In 1884, construction workers diverted hot springs water to assist with their work. This action angered Hot Springs Reservation Superintendent Samuel Hamblen, who argued that the bathhouses needed all the available water from the hot springs. Despite Hamblen’s objections, Captain Jacobs, supervising the construction of the military hospital, continued to divert water.

   The Almost Shoot Out of 1884 - Hot Springs National Park

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8. www.nps.gov › places › army-and-navy-hospitalArmy and Navy Hospital - U.S. National Park Service

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   Nov 15, 2020 · Hot Springs is home to the former Army-Navy Hospital, the first general hospital in the nation that provided treatment to both Army and Navy patients. The dream of the Army-Navy Hospital came to be during a dinner party in the Palace Bathhouse in 1882.