LAST -- Vestige of LaFoon, nr Miranda SD USA
N 45° 02.425 W 099° 01.314
14T E 498275 N 4987440
The LaFoon South Dakota post office was the last vestige of this historic community after the town and almost all its residents relocated to nearby Faulkton in 1887.
Waymark Code: WM17FK2
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2023
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If Blasterz are going to be technical about things, the LAST last vestige of LaFoon is this historical work, but Blasterz are not going to argue with the good citizens of Faulk County and State Highway Commission.
This South Dakota state historical marker stands along the South Dakota State Highway 12 between the community of Miranda and the highway junction with US 212 on the prairies of South Dakota.
The marker reads as follows:
LaFOON 1882-1891
First county seat of Faulk County, when this area surveyed October 1882 by Albert Mellen, Louis Kniesel just south and F. M. McMullen, a mile west, were “squatting” on the land. First post office, Cecrops, Nora Reppy, postmistress, was established October 26 and changed to LaFoon, honoring Alexander LaFoon, an early comer and partner of Booth in a corner store in the booming town, near NW corner of Section 15-118-68.
In 1886 over 20 buildings including a school, Presbyterian Church and the Court house, built for a saloon but bought by the County when the voters refused a license. Sylvia Smith, first school teacher, was also first Register of Deeds and later the wife of Judge J.H. Bottom, who came just after the survey. On November 5, 1883, Gov. Ordway appointed Humes, Jarvis & Humphreys to organize the county, which they did, designating LaFoon as County seat.
C. A. Ritter shot a buffalo that day nearby and buffalo steaks helped celebrate the event. LaFoon won the County seat contest of 1884 by 3 votes but when Faulkton became a two railroad town in 1887, lost out and moved almost entirely to Faulkton. It’s post office, the last vestige, was discontinued January 30, 1891. Early settlers in the LaFoon area were the Cornwell, Smith, Shaver, Lenhoff, Misfeldt, Hutchinson, Shenck, and Turner families.
Erected 1963 by Faulk County Citizens and State Highway Commission."
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