Town of Custer is the oldest town in the Black Hills and was
founded during the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874. It’s a small town with only around 2,000
people and many of the older buildings are still functioning as restaurants and
shops geared around tourism since Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Jewel Cave are
close by. Clark wondered why the street
was so wide—they made it that way so you could turn around a wagon with a team
of oxen in the middle of the street. It’s very cold there in the winter and the
economy is supported by mining and timber.
We stopped there for lunch after our visit to Jewel Cave.
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