Rockerville, South Dakota

Rockerville is a small unincorporated community in Pennington County in the Black Hills of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It originally started as a mining camp. It was named for the "rockers" which were used to separate placer gold from stream gravel.

Rockerville was founded in 1876 as the result of a gold rush.[1]

References
  1. Hellmann, Paul T. (May 13, 2013). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. p. 997. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
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