Deadwood Electric

Dec 2019

Deadwood Historic Preservation Office is a most important function of the Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the entire community of Deadwood is alive and vibrant with historic character over 125 years in the making since its founding in 1876. Growth and change since 1989 has been regulated and limited by Deadwood's Historic Preservation Commission, Planning Commission and City Commission. The town developed a Comprehensive Plan in 1993 to deal with the impacts of gaming and revised it extensively in 2001. The Deadwood Gaming Association (DGA) is the only non-profit association representing the interests of South Dakota’s commercial casino industry. Founded in 1990, the association represents the gaming industry before the legislature, the South Dakota Commission on Gaming, Deadwood City Commission, and the Deadwood Historic Preservation. Now the Deadwood Historic Preservation “Deadwood Archive” is engaged in a major undertaking of the Deadwood Historical Digital Archives vision connected on the Internet!

Jul 2019

YES!! My great grandfather Hugh McCaffrey the first was an early arrival when gold ore was first discovered at Deadwood South Dakota!! The character of Hugo Jarry (played by Steven Toblosky) on the HBO show was based on my Grandfather’s life! Gathered from newspapers stories!! HBO and Mr Milch was nice enough to provide a Wikipedia page for my Grandfather !!