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==History== Lake County, South Dakota, was inhabited by the [[Sisseton Sioux]] when explorers, including [[Joseph Nicollet]] and [[John C. Frémont|John C. Fremont]], first mapped the region in 1838–39 and noted its numerous lakes.<ref name="Robinson">Robinson, Doane, History of South Dakota (B.F. Bowen & Co., 1904), 136.</ref><ref name="HistorySD">History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth (Sioux City, Iowa: Western Publishing Company, 1881), 190–192.</ref> The 1851 [[Treaty of Mendota]] with the Santee Sioux and [[Yankton Treaty|1858 Yankton Treaty]] opened the area for American settlement.<ref name="Robinson" /> The 1857 rescue of Mrs. Marble from among the captives of the [[Spirit Lake Massacre]] brought early non-Sioux attention to the area.<ref name="Robinson" /> Permanent settlement began in 1870 when William Lee and Charles Walker established homesteads near Lake Madison, naming the town Madison after [[Madison, Wisconsin]].<ref name="HistorySD" /> Lake County was created on January 8, 1873, named for its many lakes, and organized on September 1, 1873, with Old Madison as the county seat.<ref name="HistorySD" /> Brisk settlement followed in 1878 amidst the Dakota Boom, and the railroad’s arrival in 1881 spurred growth, with towns like Ramona, Wentworth, and Winfred emerging.<ref name="Robinson" /> By 1880, the county’s population reached 2,657.<ref name="HistorySD" /> Agriculture drove economic progress in the 1870s and 1880s, and Madison became a commercial hub with businesses like the Lake County Flouring Mill (opened 1881), newspapers such as the Madison Sentinel (1879), and the Madison Normal School (1883).<ref name="Robinson" />
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