Editing Oacoma, South Dakota (section)

==History==
[[File:Al's Oasis.jpg|thumb|upright|Al's Oasis, a stopping-off place in Oacoma along Interstate 90]]
On September 17, 1804, [[Lewis and Clark]] camped on the west bank of the Missouri River near American Island where Oacoma is now located. During the remainder of the 19th century the area was a stopping off place for explorers, fur traders and steamboat men. The township of Oacoma was laid out in 1891 as the county seat for the newly formed Lyman County; the County seat was transferred to the town of [[Kennebec, South Dakota|Kennebec]] in 1922. The [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]] arrived in Oacoma in 1905,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA994 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=November 30, 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=994| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref> and Oacoma was known as a "banking post-village".<ref>{{cite book|editor=Angelo Heilprin|others=Louis Heilprin|title=Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iA9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1341|access-date=December 15, 2014|year=1906|publisher=J.B. Lippincott Company|page=1341}}</ref> In the [[21st century]], it is a rest stop for travelers on [[Interstate 90]].