This is a very short stop if you are traveling across South Dakota on I-90. The Palace is redecorated each year with naturally colored corn and
other grains and native grasses to make it “the agricultural show-place
of the world”. We currently use 13 different colors or shades of corn to
decorate the Corn Palace: red, brown, black, blue, white, orange,
calico, yellow and green corn. A different theme is chosen
each year, and murals are designed to reflect that theme. Ear by ear the
corn is nailed to the Corn Palace to create a scene. The decorating
process usually starts in late May with the removal of the rye and dock.
The corn murals are stripped at the end of August and the new ones are
completed by the first of October.
It all began in 1892 (when Mitchell, South Dakota was a small, 12-year-old city of
3,000 inhabitants) when the World's Only Corn Palace was established on the
city’s Main Street. During it’s over 100 years of existence, it attracts more than a half a million
visitors annually. The palace was conceived as a gathering place where
city residents and their rural neighbors could enjoy a fall festival
with extraordinary stage entertainment - a celebration to climax a
crop-growing season and harvest. It is really pretty cool.
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