We took one last detour in Minnesota before entering South Dakota to a little town called Pipestone. It is known for all of its buildings which were built around 1900 out of a local pink stone called Sioux Quartzite. (We also learned that it is the home of the peace pipe.) They actually went crazy with the pink stone. The courthouse, library, hotel, a church, bank and several storefronts on the main street are made of it. The courthouse is definitely the most beautiful of the buildings. They haven't built anything with it since shortly after 1900, except that the roads literally have a pink cast to them.
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