Outlaw Square

Outlaw Square was created through a public-private partnership with a concerted effort to build a local gathering space to accommodate public events. Historically, Deadwood had public spaces including a  gazebo or band stand on Sherman Street and Chautauqua Park on the top of McGovern Hill as well as early parks. But as the decades wore on, some of the locations and facilities succumbed to age or redevelopment. Deadwood now has a state of the art facility as a public gather space hosting a variety of events and activities year round. 

Construction of Outlaw Square began in the autumn of 2018 with funding coming from the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the State of South Dakota. Its location on the corner of Deadwood Street and Main Street is the former site of Deadwood’s City Hall and the Deadwood Theater, grand Victorian-era public buildings that were destroyed by a tragic fire in 1952.

It’s also less than 100 feet from the confluence of Whitewood Creek, City Creek, and Deadwood Creek, where gold was first discovered in Deadwood Gulch in late 1875 – an event that opened the floodgates to the prospectors, entrepreneurs, and gamblers who built Deadwood into one of the West’s most legendary towns.