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Subject: Sd-Faulk Co. History (Chapter VIII LaF)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:41:22 -0500


Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter VIII LaFoon 1909
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CHAPTER VIII CONTINUED,
LAFOON.

The beautiful location of the first county seat of Faulk county, with its
miles of broad prairie and its rich, luxuriant grasses, supplemented by the fact
that the eastern part of the county was first settled, and largely by a class of
real homesteaders, made an active, growing business town, and at the coming of
the Northwestern Railroad, had it not been for the fact that superior railroad
facilities pointed to Faulkton, all other circumstances and conditions were in
its favor and it would have continued its onward, prosperous and commanding course.

With such men as D. S. Smith, J. H. Bottum, F. A. Seaman, H. D. Chamberlain,
W. H. Race and Dr. J.. P. Rathbun; with the LaFoon Record, F. A. Evans, editor
and proprietor, the recognized official paper of the county, LaFoon's interests
were well cared for, giving every assurance, not only to its own citizens, but
to every impartial observer, of present permanency and future prosperity.

This state of things continued with increasing, strength until the
inhabitants awoke to the unwelcome fact that the final survey of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad had been made, the line passing to the south of them and
direct to Faulkton, their persistent rival for county seat honors.

Quick to see and apt to take advantage of their remaining hope, LaFoon was
soon on wheels, passing westward over the prairies to become an integral part,
if not a controlling factor in the upbuilding of their late persistent and
unyielding rival.


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HISTORY OF
FAULK COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS

TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

ILLUSTRATED
19O9



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