{"id":214,"date":"2013-11-06T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=214"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:41:09","slug":"water-tower-wednesday-the-granite-water-tower-of-dell-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Water Tower Wednesday &#8211; The Granite Water Tower of Dell Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/9507651060\/\" title=\"DSCN0838 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSCN0838\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/9507651060_958f412368_z-225x300.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this beauty back in August during a trip to South Dakota for a family reunion. The old water tower was built in 1894 out of Sioux quartzite, a locally quarried stone. The forty five foot tower was operational until 1960 until replaced by a new tower. The old tower is now on the National Register of Historic Places. It looked pretty sturdy and well maintained to me for a 119 year old water tower. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it doesn&#8217;t last another 119 years. The water tank was placed at the top of the tower. There is more information <a href=\"http:\/\/history.sd.gov\/preservation\/DellRapidsGraniteWaterTower.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, the water tower has its own geocache, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/geocache\/GC2193T_dell-rapids-historic-series-wasser-werks\">Dell Rapids Historic Series: Wasser Werks<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>The people in the photograph above from left to right are my Sister Ellen, my Uncle Glenn, who was on his very first geocaching hunt, and the world&#8217;s greatest BIL Irv. And yes, we found the cache. Or rather Irv found it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Daryl of <a href=\"http:\/\/onthem104.blogspot.com\/\">Out and About in New York City<\/a> about getting me interested in Water Towers. She has a regular feature called Water Tower Wednesday that I borrow every now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this beauty back in August during a trip to South Dakota for a family reunion. The old water tower was built in 1894 out of Sioux quartzite, a locally quarried stone. The forty five foot tower was operational until 1960 until replaced by a new tower. The old tower is now on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,276,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geocaching","category-south-dakota","category-water-tower-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}