About Mount Marty College

Mount Marty University is a private Benedictine academic world in Yankton, South Dakota.

Yankton is a city in and the county chair of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.

Yankton had a population of 14,454 at the 2010 census and it is the principal city of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County and which had an estimated population of 22,662 as of July 1, 2017. Yankton was the first capital of Dakota Territory. It is named for the Yankton tribe of Western Dakota people; Yankton is derived from the Dakota word I-hank-ton-wan (“the decline village”).

Yankton is located upon the Missouri River just downstream of the Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake, and just upstream of the confluence afterward the James River. The United States National Park Service’s headquarters for the Missouri National Recreational River are located in the city. The Human Services Center was established as a psychiatric hospital in 1882 and is upon the National Register of Historic Places.

Yankton is commonly referred to as the “River City”, due to its proximity to the Missouri River and the importance the river played in the city’s agreement and development. Yankton has afterward earned the nickname “Mother City of the Dakotas”, due to the to come important role it played in the initiation and move on of the Dakota Territory, which unconventional became the 39th and 40th U.S. states of North and South Dakota.

Owing to the early misuse of Fort Hays Limestone for glue manufacture, including shipment of glue to the construction of the Panama Canal, Yankton as soon as also had the nickname “Cement City”.