Carpenter, South Dakota
Carpenter, South Dakota | |
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  Carpenter Location within the state of South Dakota  Carpenter Carpenter (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 44°38′17″N 97°54′54″W / 44.638°N 97.915°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | South Dakota |
| County | Clark |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP codes | 57322 |
| Area code | 605 |
Carpenter was a town in Clark County, South Dakota, United States.[1][2] Located 14 miles (23 km) west of Willow Lake on the GNR,[2] it was founded in 1899,[3] and had an estimated population of 85 in 1921.[2]
It was named by its first postmaster John C. Opsahl for his recently deceased friend, G. W. Carpenter, a land office agent in nearby Watertown.[1][3]
It had a lumberyard, the Carpenter Lumber Company, whose building stood for many years in the mid-20th-century before being finally demolished in the 1990s.[4] It had a general store, C. W. Chambers General Merchandise.[5] It also had (in 1921) three churches, Methodist, Lutheran, and Congregational; a bank; a hotel; and a feed mill.[2] In the 1970s, the Farmers Union Oil Company ran a fertilizer plant there.[6]
Celebrated residents at the turn of the 20th century included Canton Hobit, who reportedly weighed 512 pounds (232 kg) and had to slide off his buggy with the use of a board.[7] One Dr Leach, the local physician who had moved there in 1907, drove its first automobile there in 1909.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b FWP 1940, p. 30, Carpenter.
- ^ a b c d Polk 1921, p. 142, Carpenter.
- ^ a b Furness 2006, p. 101.
- ^ Furness 2006, p. 117.
- ^ a b Furness 2006, p. 118.
- ^ USNFDC 1977, p. 197.
- ^ Furness 2006, p. 116.
Bibliography
[edit]- Federal Writers' Project (1940). "Cities, towns, and villages". South Dakota place-names. Vol. 1. University of South Dakota. (South Dakota place-names at the HathiTrust Digital Library)
- Furness, Greg (2006). "Willow Lake, Melham, and Carpenter". Clark County. Postcard History. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 101–118. ISBN 9781439616772.
- South Dakota State Gazetteer and Business Directory. Vol. 22. R. L. Polk & Company. 1921.
- Association of American Plant Food Control Officials (1977). Directory, Fertilizer Plants in the United States. Bulletin. Vol. 114 (2nd ed.). Muscle Shoals, Alabama: United States National Fertilizer Development Center.
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