general beadle when the u.s. capitol invited each state to statuary statues to hall in washington, general beadle was the first selected from south dakota. this is the twin of the statue at a u.s. capitol. i have been coming to the capital my whole life, my grandpa served in the state senate and i used to visit him as a little kid. we have many school groups who go through the capital every year. one of the things that kids most remember and what they know is the story of these blue tiles on the floor. when the capital was being built, the floor was put in by stonemasons from italy and traditionally the stonemasons are allowed to sign their work somewhere. there were so many that they did not want them to do that. the story is each stone mason given a blue tile to place on the floor. supposedly there are 66 of them through the building. only 55 have ever been found. if you take a tour of the state capital and with the school group, there is a lot of attention paid to trying to find as many blue tiles as you can w

this is a statue of general william henry harrison beadle, general beadle was born in indiana and was a brigadier general and the civil war and came to the dakota territory after he was appointed by president grant to be the surveyor general and spent the rest of his life here. he is a very important figure in our early history particularly because of his advocacy for the school land concept. she thought the strongly that we needed to end out the operation of our stash in doubt our school our schoolndow system and pushed for system that pushed for one in each township through the state that would be owned by the state and trust for the benefit of the schools in that township. over time, those parcels of land have been slopped into larger areas and as they are not all necessarily the same. budget to this day, we have the public land trust that operates to produce money for our school system. this was an innovative idea and one that caught on and other states that became states around at the same time, north dakota, montana, wyoming, washington copied south dakota's provision. when the

general beadle when the u.s. capitol invited each state to contribute 2 statues, general beadle was the first selected from south dakota. this is the twin of the statue at a u.s. capitol. well, i have been coming to the capital my whole life, my grandpa served in the state senate and i used to visit him as a little kid. and we have many school groups who go through the capital every year. one of the things that kids most remember and what they know is the story of these blue tiles on the floor. the capital was being built, the floor was presented by stonemasons from italy and traditionally the stonemasons are allowed to sign of their work somewhere. there were so many they do not want them to do that. the story is each stone mason given a blue tile to place on the floor, supposedly there are 66 of them through the building. only 55 have ever been found. if you take a tour on the state capital and with the school group, that's a lot of attention paid to trying to find as many blue tiles as you can while here. i ho

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