Gayville

Gayville is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Gayville has an elevation of 4,787 feet.

Type: Hamlet
Description: unincorporated community in the United States of America
Also known as: “Black Tail”, “Gayville, Lawrence County, South Dakota”, “Gayville, SD”, and “Gayville, South Dakota”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Moriah Cemetery and Bullock Hotel.

Mount Moriah Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: Sue, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. Mount Moriah Cemetery is situated 1½ miles east of Gayville.

Bullock Hotel

Hotel

The historic Bullock Hotel is located at the corner of Wall Street and Main Street in Deadwood, South Dakota. It was built by Seth Bullock, an early sheriff of Deadwood, and his business partner Sol Star, in around 1895 at a cost of $40,000 and is the oldest hotel in Deadwood, boasting a casino, restaurant, and 28 of its original 63 rooms. Bullock Hotel is situated 1½ miles east of Gayville.

Sanford Underground Research Facility

Photo: Sanford Lab, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Sanford Underground Research Facility, or Sanford Lab, is an underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. The deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino physics research, biology, geology and engineering. Sanford Underground Research Facility is situated 1½ miles south of Gayville.