Editing Huron, South Dakota (section)

==History==
[[File:South Dakota capital rival 1889 maps.jpg|thumb|Huron (left) and Pierre (right) issued rival maps that claimed each as the best place voters should choose for the new state capital in 1890.]]

Huron was founded during railroad and land booms in the 1880s. The early history of the town is closely linked with the [[Chicago and Northwestern Railway]]. At the direction of [[Marvin Hughitt]], general manager of the railroad, the west bank of the [[James River (Dakotas)|James River]] was selected as the railway's division headquarters. The company gained title to {{convert|880|acre|km2}} of land at that location. Huron was named for the Huron Indians.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_lKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA11 | title=History of the Origin of the Place Names in Nine Northwestern States | year=1908 | page=11}}</ref>

The original [[plat]] covered 11 blocks, and Huron's first settler was John Cain, a practical printer from [[Troy, New York]]. He learned in Chicago, from the railroad people, that they would have their chief town and operating headquarters at their James River crossing.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Beginning in 1880, Huron and [[Pierre, South Dakota|Pierre]] vied to be selected as the state capital, until Pierre was chosen in 1904. Campbell Park and Winter Park in Huron were previously designated as properties for the capital grounds, and a city block of land between the parks with [[Victorian house]]s was originally slated for the capitol building.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Capital Fight Choosing South Dakota's Capital City |url=https://history.sd.gov/museum/docs/CapitalFight.pdf}}</ref>

*Chronology:
**1879 – The town site was located
**1880 – Town site surveyed and platted
**1881 – First town government formed - a board of four trustees, a town clerk, a justice of the peace, one marshal and a surveyor
**1882 – Alderman system of government adopted
**1883 – Incorporated as the City of Huron - the city still operates under the original charter and seal
**1910 – Changed from alderman to city commission form of government
**1935 – City manager form of government adopted