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AI-generated illustration: old wooden homes and a long stairway on a steep hillside

McGovern Hill

A large, lightly populated hillside neighborhood near the junction of Whitewood and Deadwood creeks.

AI-generated illustration, not a photo of this place.

McGovern Hill rises near the junction of Whitewood and Deadwood creeks, and street maps still carry the name on McGovern Hill Road. Historical marker text describes a few log cabins and Deadwood’s first church as the earliest development at the creek junction, says homes from 1935 to 1940 form the bulk of the neighborhood, and calls it the city’s largest neighborhood by area, though with a very small population.

We could read that marker only as a search excerpt rather than on the marker page itself, so the details are unconfirmed and are shown here as provisional. The Deadwood end of the Homestake Trail lies close by. This is a residential hillside, so please respect private property.

Sources: HMDB: McGovern Hill marker (search excerpt only)