There’s a small and simple church that sits in the heart of Tabor, and it well sums up the heritage of that tiny southeastern South Dakota town as a Czech settlement and a farming community.
The Nedved church is topped with a cross made of redwood from Tabor’s old water tank.
An iron sign east of Tabor, S.D., marks the Nedbeduv Hrbitov (Nedved Cemetery), started by some of the first Czech immigrants in Dakota Territory.
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This chalkstone church near Tabor, S.D., was built to replace the Nedved church, which is believed to be the first Czech Catholic church in Dakota Territory.
Dennis Povondra of Tabor takes a break from fall clean up work to pose by the historic Czech church on the museum grounds.
