The L-shaped Spearfish Historic Commercial District encompasses a four-block area around Spearfish’s Main Street. Spearfish has already established its peaceful presence in this rugged land and stands ready to meet the challenges of statehood as the Queen City of the Black Hills. By now, area ranchers and the handful of miners still working their claims are searching for a community that meets their social and commercial needs. Rumors in Dakota Territory hint of statehood, and in 1888, one year ahead of South Dakota Statehood, Spearfish incorporates as a city. The placer gold is running out and the Indian Treaties are taking hold.
Smith Establish a town site with extra wide streets and alleyways on the banks of Spearfish Creek. It is in this year – 1876 – that Alfred Gay and J.E. Unlike the wild raucous mining town of Deadwood, Spearfish is growing quietly into a center for commerce and community. A small settlement along the Spearfish Creek is beginning to show signs of permanence. Gold fever is attracting prospectors, homesteaders, and adventurers to the Northern Black Hills of Dakota Territory.
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