5places
5businesses
1892oldest
3still open
2gone
Savoy on When It Was is 5 addresses and the 5 businesses that have occupied them, the oldest from 1892. 3 are still open today; 2 are gone. Every entry below opens a page with the full history of that address, and the map lets you slide the year and watch the city change.
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Roughlock Falls
Roughlock Falls Rd, Little Spearfish Canyon
Wagon drivers once had to chain-lock their wheels to inch safely down the grade here — giving this roughly 50-foot cascade in Little Spearfi…
Savoy (canyon hamlet)
Jct US-14A & Roughlock Falls Rd · 1892–present
This unincorporated speck of a resort hamlet began as a sawmill town supplying the Black Hills timber trade, and survives today as the touri…
The Latchstring Inn
10619 Roughlock Falls Rd · 1909–present
Named for the frontier custom of leaving a latchstring hanging out as a welcome sign, this canyon inn has operated since 1909 — even though …
Dances With Wolves Winter Camp Site
Forest Service Road 222, Little Spearfish Canyon · 1989–1989
In November 1989 a Lakota winter camp of real teepees was built in the snow north of Roughlock Falls for the closing scenes of "Dances With …
Homestake Hydroelectric Plant No. 2
Spearfish Canyon (near Spearfish Falls) · 1917–1947
This second Homestake power plant literally dried up one of Spearfish Canyon's named waterfalls for decades by diverting its flow into a pip…
Savoy, decade by decade
- 1890s
- 1900s
- 1910s
- 1980s
Still here, and gone
Still open (3)
- Savoy (canyon hamlet) 1892–present
- The Latchstring Inn 1909–present
- Roughlock Falls
Gone (2)
- Dances With Wolves Winter Camp Site 1989–1989
- Homestake Hydroelectric Plant No. 2 1917–1947
By kind of place
Natural Landmark (1)
Historic Hamlet (1)
Inn (1)
Film History Site (1)
Dances With Wolves Winter Camp Site
Power Plant (1)
Collections that cover Savoy
Every place in Savoy (5)
- Dances With Wolves Winter Camp Site Forest Service Road 222, Little Spearfish Canyon · 1989–1989
- Homestake Hydroelectric Plant No. 2 Spearfish Canyon (near Spearfish Falls) · 1917–1947
- Roughlock Falls Roughlock Falls Rd, Little Spearfish Canyon
- Savoy (canyon hamlet) Jct US-14A & Roughlock Falls Rd · 1892–present
- The Latchstring Inn 10619 Roughlock Falls Rd · 1909–present
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