Yankton College
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Yankton College was a small liberal arts college in Yankton, South Dakota, affiliated with the Congregational Church.
Founded in 1881, it was the first institution of higher learning in the Dakota Territory, and the first liberal arts college in the United States west of the Mississippi River. The man primarily responsible for the college's establishment was Joseph Ward, a local pastor and educator who is one of the two South Dakotans represented in Statuary Hall.
It is probably best known today as the college which NFL football player Lyle Alzado attended.
The college's athletic teams were known as the Greyhounds.
Yankton College closed in December 1984, and its campus became the site of a federal prison, which opened four years later.
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