![]() ![]() ![]() We are proud of our Court House, built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Our present centers of community activity are the Hyde County Memorial Auditorium, Highmore County Club, Swimming Pool, and Senior Center. Highmore has always been a thriving community with a well balanced business district, a volunteer fire department, a progressive school system, a nursing home, a clinic, and housing for the elderly. The depot was long ago moved from Highmore. Highmore is still served by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, only hauling freight, mostly grain grown in this part of the country. Lucinda Robinson, since she already had a small hotel on the land he wanted for his town. ![]() Parker arrived from New York, he had to deal with Mrs. Highmore still has two main streets connected by Second Street. Businesses quickly built on Second Street, thus connecting the twin towns. He platted it in June with Iowa Avenue as his main street. Parker, from New York, arrived in February 1882 and purchased 40 acres with Valentine Scrip. Van Camp came from Iowa and purchased 40 acres, which he platted on July 3, 1882, with Commercial Avenue as his main street. Highmore had its beginnings as a twin town with two main streets. Many people who are “just passing through” Highmore do not realize they are missing Commercial Avenue (one block East of Iowa Avenue or SD Hwy 47) which hosts both banks, the post office, the library, the drug store, the health clinic, and Venture Communications Cooperative headquarters, among several other businesses and services. Most rural South Dakota towns, even some with much more population, have just one main, commercial street running through town. The city of Highmore is unique in that it has two main, commercial streets. Highmore and Hyde County are also located in one of the best and largest wind energy development areas in South Dakota. Highmore is in the middle of both Hyde County and the state of South Dakota intersecting US Hwy 14 and SD Hwy 47, with proximity to highway, railroad, and air transportation. This central South Dakota area is also the gateway to Big Bend on the Missouri River and offers many fishing, hunting, camping and other recreational, economic development, and business opportunities. Highmore is a small, rural town, and the county seat of Hyde County. Centrally located just 48 miles East of Pierre, the state capital, Highmore is principally a ranching, farming, agricultural community. ![]()
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