Mobridge, South Dakota

"Over-the-River Town") is a city in Walworth County, South Dakota, United States.

[6] Located in territory that had long been occupied by the Lakota Sioux, Mobridge was founded by European Americans in 1906 following construction of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad through here.

[8] There are disputed claims that some or all of chief Sitting Bull's remains were moved by his surviving relatives and the Dakota Memorial Association on April 8, 1953 from Fort Yates, North Dakota, where he had been killed and buried, to Mobridge, which was near his birthplace.

[9][10] The Mobridge burial site is marked by a monument consisting of his bust on a granite pedestal; it overlooks the Missouri River.

[11] The Brown Palace Hotel in Mobridge is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Artist Oscar Howe (Yanktonai Dakota) painted a mural for the town's auditorium.

The Mobridge Masonic Temple was built in Egyptian Revival style in 1923.

[12] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.89 square miles (4.90 km2), all land.