South Dakota Symbols and Fast Facts

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South Dakota Symbols and Fast Facts
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State Flower

• South Dakota Pasque

Also known as the May Day flower
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State Seal
Adopted in 1885 Depicts farming, ranching, indust
ries, lumbering, manufacturing, and mining
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State Animal and Insect

• Coyote

• Honey Bee

SD leads in honey production
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South Dakota State Flag
Statehood in 1889
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State Gemstone and Mineral

• Fairburn Agate

• Rose Quartz

First discovered in Fairburn, SD
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State Tree

• South Dakota Blue Spruce

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State Song Hail, South Dakota
Shrine of Democracy Adopted in 1943

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln

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State Capitol
Visit the state capital in Pierre.
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State Fossil
Triceratops
Lived approximately 68 million years ago
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State Jewelry
Black Hills Gold
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State Fish

• Walleye

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State Bird
Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant
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State Dessert
Kuchen
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State Soil
Houdek (hoo-deck)
Only SD has this soil Soil covers over two millio
n acres
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State Slogan
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