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==History== [[Lewis and Clark]] camped at the mouth of the [[Vermillion River (South Dakota)|Vermillion River]] near the present-day town on August 24, 1804. The previous day, they had killed their first bison; the next day, they climbed [[Spirit Mound Historic Prairie|Spirit Mound]]. In May 1843, [[John James Audubon]] visited the Vermillion ravine to view the bird life. The town was considered for the site of South Dakota's first [[Psychiatric hospital|mental institution]] (now the [[Human Services Center]]) in 1873, but the hospital was eventually awarded to nearby [[Yankton, South Dakota|Yankton]]. The original town was entirely below the bluffs on the banks of the [[Missouri River]], and three-quarters of it washed away in the [[Great Flood of 1881]]. [[William Jennings Bryan]] and [[William Howard Taft]]—candidates for the U.S. presidency in the [[1908 United States presidential election|1908 election]]—spoke in Vermillion on September 28 and 29, 1908, respectively. Along with [[Eugene Chafin]], they toured South Dakota by train, including stops in [[Mitchell, South Dakota|Mitchell]], [[Tripp, South Dakota|Tripp]], [[Yankton, South Dakota|Yankton]], and [[Elk Point, South Dakota|Elk Point]].<ref>{{cite journal | title = Brass Bands and Huzzahs: Politics at the Corn Palace, 1908 | first = Ralph | last = Tingley | journal = [[South Dakota State Historical Society]] | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | date = March 23, 1982 | url = http://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-12-1/brass-bands-and-huzzahs-politics-at-the-corn-palace-1908 }}</ref> [[John Philip Sousa]] conducted the Sousa Band on October 26, 1926, at the facility that in 1929 became known as Slagle Auditorium.<ref>Paul Edmund Bierley, ''The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), p. 190.</ref> On March 24, 1967, in Vermillion, Thomas James White Hawk and William Stands murdered jeweler James Yeado and raped his wife.<ref>Gerald Vizenor, "Thomas James White Hawk: Murder on Good Friday," and "Commutation of Death", in ''Tribal Scenes and Ceremonies,'' Minneapolis: Nodin Press, c. 1976.</ref>
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