This cabin (Palm Memorial Lodge) is in honor of the Palm family - most notably from the Huron, South Dakota area. However, their influence was felt in many other locations, especially among the early Swedish immigrants to this country. The Rev Andrew P. Palm came from Sweden in 1883 and moved into the Lake Norden area on a homestead. He and some of his Swedish friends attended the Baptist church in Oldham, but all were influential in starting the Swedish Baptist Church in Lake Norden (1888) which soon became the center of community life.

He served that church for thirty years, dividing his time between that church and the Swedish Baptist Church in Huron, organized in 1893. Eventually, upon his advice, these two churches merged with the American First Baptist Church of Huron in 1897.

Of the four children in this family, one son, Andrew W. Palm, a layman, carried on the Palm name for many years. He graduated from South Dakota State College in 1910 and then lived in Watertown where he was the county agent for 17 years. He organized the Potato Growers Association while there, and today it ranks as a leading one for certified potato seed. When he received the 1956 Distinguished Citizen award in Huron, he was characterized as a family, church, and businessman; youth, farm, and civic leader; social worker, county agent, educator, philanthropist, and friend to all who had come to know him.

As president of the South Dakota Men's Council in 1944, he helped raise money among the men of the state for purchase of the new Baptist Assembly Grounds in Green Lake, Wisconsin. He also was on the search committee for a new state executive, which later offered the name of the Rev. Otto Nallinger. In 1953 he was the chairman of a committee on "Churches for New Frontiers." Funds raised throughout the convention were allocated to the several state and city conventions for founding new congregations and aiding others still too weak to support themselves without assistance. In 1955 when Ted Scholl brought a report on the Camp Judson Building Fund, Andy asked what the water tank was for on top of the hill. Ted's humorous reply was "It's a new idea - it holds water!"

Andy served on the board of trustees of Sioux Falls College for nineteen years and later was awarded the Inez Beebe Perisho Award. This is awarded to those for achievement in Christian service to community, denomination, or nation. He retired to Florida in 1955 and passed away ten years later.