CUSTER, S.D. (AP) - A $500 reward has been offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the vandals who damaged a historic ranch on U.S. Forest Service property near Custer.
A large section of siding on the Meeker Ranch Barn in the Black Hills was vandalized earlier this summer. Antique windows in the ranch house were broken during the incident.
The Black Hills Historic Preservation Trust is offering the reward. President Skip Tillisch of Hill City says the ranch is an essential piece of the Black Hills history.
Tillisch says the trust doesn’t have the money or the time to fix the windows at the moment, but the windows will soon be covered with Lexan plastic to protect the structure from the winter weather that’s ahead.
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