Having just visited Eureka SD, I wanted to know more about it’s reputation as a one-time grain market. Here are a few facts about its role. “For 15 years, from 1887 to 1902, this ‘end of track’ town was the largest primary wheat market in the world. In 1897 alone, two-thirds of the world’s wheat crop entering the commercial market was shipped from Eureka.”
Over 165 trains of 20 cars each were being loaded at Eureka over a few month period. Several factors made it possible: end-of-the track, richness of new land, and hard work of the German-Russian farmers in the area. The honors ended when the railroad moved north, and new town markets came into being.
The picture was taken at the Northern State University’s Germans from Russia Cultural Center. It shows the wheat market at Odessa, Russia. That city is in contention in the Ukrainian conflict now. As an aside, Mary visited that city on a tour and said it was a very beautiful city.
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