As a teenager living in Bon Homme County, I must have driven
past this old metal building with the broken letters spelling out
Perkins on the front of it, at least a dozen times and never once
thought what it might be or what it represented. Even as an adult
living in Tyndall, SD nearly twenty five years now, not till 2015 did I
even know that at one time there was a community named Perkins
that sat just a few miles west of Springfield, SD. My husband being
the researcher of plotting and searching for new locations for us to
photograph, had come across information for Perkins and planned
our destination one Saturday afternoon.
On the north side of the road sits a very uniquely designed metal
building; we walked completely around the outside amazed at
the size of this structure and the beautiful condition it was still in.
Looking through every window we saw it was filled to the brim with
old vehicles, bicycles and item too numerous to mention. Across the
road we crossed over a down fence line overgrown with weeds and
ditch grass, still somewhat standing in the distance was a home that
Mother Nature and time had taken its toll on. This family home,
I’m sure at one time was a beautiful home for the time period it
was built. Mostly broken floorboards, pealing wallpaper remnant
and kitchen cupboards and drawers and a lone toaster was all that
remained inside the old home. A few small out buildings and what
looked to be a store of some sort, but with most of the walls and roof
collapsed and being taken over by the growth of vegetation, it was
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