Rapid City was founded with the idea that it would be a service center for people and materials destined for the gold fields. The Commercial Historic District and the Black Hills area became important as a commercial center for transient miners in the 1870s, but later served the needs of more stable social-economic groups. The district’s structures are of late 19th and early 20th century origin and reflect typical period architecture
Railroad Town Hub City and Main Street Commercial Development
Since its founding in 1881, Aberdeen has been the dominant regional commercial center for northeast South Dakota and the Aberdeen Commercial Historic District is the commercial core of this regional hub.
Main Street is a homogeneous collection of brick buildings built between 1884 and 1983, with special emphasis on the 1908-29 period. The district conveys a strong feeling of architectural cohesiveness with design elements such as corbelling and geometric brick and concrete patterns as distinguishing features that reinforce the feeling of time and place.
Cabotage Logistics 