Pedro, South Dakota

Pedro
Ghost town
Pedro
Coordinates: 44.42°N 102.119°W / 44.42; -102.119
Country	United States
State	South Dakota
County	Pennington
Elevation	2,031 ft (619 m)
Time zone	UTC-7 (MST)

Pedro is a populated place in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.[1] Pedro once had a population of 300 and had its own newspaper, the Pedro Bugle, but is now a ghost town.[2]

History

The community's name was selected during a session of the card game Pedro.[3]

Carrie Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) worked for E.L. Senn (who owned as many as fifty-one newspapers in South Dakota at that time)[4] in Pedro, which was not too far from her claim. By the summer of 1909, she was the manager working for Senn at the Pedro Bugle[5][6][7]

References

1. "Pedro - Local Area Photos and Information". SD HomeTown Locator. HTL. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
2. "Carrie Ingalls". Keystone Area Historical Society. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 56.
4. E.L.Senn on pioneergirlproject.org
5. Carrie Ingalls profile on Keystone Area Historical Society Official Homepage
6. Carrie Ingalls on littlehousediscussion.blogspot.com
7. Carrie Ingalls on littlehouseontheprairie.com