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Following South Dakota's admission as a state in 1889, the United States Department of Interior called on Surveyor Charles H. Bates to survey and mark the border between North and South Dakota. After purchasing quartzite stone from North Sioux Falls Stone Company, Bates worked through 1891 and 1892 setting 720 quartzite pillars every 1/2 mile along the line. The boundary became known as the "quartzite border" and it is the only state boundary marked in this fashion.
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