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Hello. My name is Rick Geyerman..
In 1852, my great-great Grandfather, Peter Geyerman, opened his first General Store in Shakopee, on the fertile banks of the Minnesota River.
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Men and wagons carried his goods to the settlers on the Prairie. By the clanking of the pots and tin-ware as their wagons jolted down the hardpacked and rutted roads, they came to be known as drummers.
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about early Shakopee from an 1856 newspaper article
Map
of Shakopee in 1869
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For nearly 150 years, Geyermans Mercantile Company has been serving the men and women of the Dakotas and western Minnesota. We still do business the way my Grampa taught me, and his grampa taught him before that... to treat our customers with respect. And to treat them like neighbors, because in most cases they are.
DakotaMainStreet is our newest store, and now our customers can live beyond the HeartLand.
Our Pipestone, Minnesota store is located on Pipestone's Historic MainStreet
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Read Great Grampa's letters back to Germany May 1854 | November 1855 | March 1862 | October 1905 | October 1907 | Janary 1909| |
November 2000
Julie Geyerman was named "Retailer of the Year" by the NorthStar Fashion Exhibitors (all of the fashion reps who work out of the Minneapolis market). Julie is the buyer, and the brains behind our present organization.
Now, you know why I married the woman.
April 22, 1999
Julie Geyerman is named Mitchell's Business Woman of the Year!
In 1996, Geyerman's Clothing Company was named Retailer of the Year, by the South Dakota Retail Association - the nation's oldest, and fifth largest state retail association.
In 1990, Geyerman's Clothing Company was named Retailer of the Year, by Specialty Stores, USA, at their annual convention in New York City.
Geyerman's received an H.P.C. Mainstreet Design Award for the remodel of our historic Mitchell, SD Headquarters
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