Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS, a city and county-seat of Minnehaha co., S. D.; on the Sioux river, and on the Illinois Central, the Great Northern, the Burlington, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul and other railroads; 90 miles N. of Sioux City, Ia. It contains the Sioux Falls College (Bapt.), Lutheran Normal School, All Saints School, the State penitentiary, the State School for Deaf Mutes, libraries, several National and other banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, and of the Protestant Episcopal bishop of South Dakota. It has important jasper quarries, and manufactories of woolen and linen goods, boilers, brick, brooms, flour, soap, etc. The meat-packing industry is important. Pop. (1910) 14,094; (1920) 25,202.