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Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Water Pump Station, Menoher Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

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Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Water Pump Station, Menoher Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

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Summary

Significance: The Water Pump Station (Building No. 88621) was built in the Cold War era in 1952 as part of the water distribution system for the newly constructed Rushmore Air Force Station, a federal storage and maintenance facility for nuclear weapons.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N742
Survey number: HABS SD-21-N
Building/structure dates: 1952 Initial Construction

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1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Geiger Architecture, contractor
Jackson, Christiana, transmitter
Eilbeck, Kevin, photographer
Slott, Roger, photographer
Rosby, Wayne, historian
Geiger, Lee, historian
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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