Lavina Main Post Office - 59046 - Lavina, MT
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N 46° 17.723 W 108° 56.260
12T E 658837 N 5128934
Still one of the newest buildings in Lavina, the post office is very nearly not in the town, having been built right on the town's northern edge.
Waymark Code: WMWA42
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 07/31/2017
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As best we can tell this would have been the fifth post office in Lavina. The first, location unknown, would have been opened about 1908, with the inception of the village of Lavina. The second was operated out of the Slayton Mercantile, immediately north across First Avenue from its third location in the old Lavina State Bank. It operated from the Slayton Mercantile building from 1910 until 1923, when the bank failed and the post office moved into the building. In 1960 a new post office was built across the street from the bank building. In 1999 the present Lavina Post Office was built a block north, right on the edge of town.
When the town of Lavina was born commensurate with the arrival of the Milwaukee Railroad in 1908, it was hoped that it would become a major supply centre for the area, catering to homesteaders who were pouring into the area which was to become Golden Valley County, named when a golden field of rye caught the eye of one of TPTB. By the late 'teens, however, drought plagued most of Montana and the influx turned into an exodus, with towns shrinking and banks failing left and right. Such was the plight of Lavina, a situation from which it never fully recovered. It remains a small town with few businesses and a number of boarded up buildings, many built in the heady days of the beginning of the twentieth century.
Type of structure:: Stand alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 59046
Current Status:: Still in Use
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