Custer is a tiny little town with about 2,000 people. In the days of the gold rush, Custer had as many as 10,000 people. The downtown is just three or four blocks long with two Trading Posts, a few tourist shops, grocery store, a Frontier photo place, and a fabulous pie place called The Purple Pie Place. I had a piece of Bumbleberry pie (a mix of berries and rhubarb) with a scoop of birthday cake ice cream.
Custer is named for Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer who led an expedition from Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota to the Black Hills of South Dakota. The expedition found that gold had been discovered and that discovery brought miners to the Black Hills breaking the treaty that the US made with the Indians, granting them the Black Hills. The broken treaty led to the battle at Little Big Horn in Montana two years later which resulted in the death of Custer.
Crazy Horse Memorial is just 11 miles north of Custer, and is one of the main attractions Custer, SD has to offer.