Carpenter, South Dakota
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Carpenter is a town in Clark County, South Dakota, United States.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Located Script error: No such module "convert". west of Willow Lake on the GNR,Template:Sfn it was founded in 1899,Template:Sfn and had an estimated population of 85 in 1921.Template:Sfn
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.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
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.Template:Sfn It had a general store, C. W. Chambers General Merchandise.Template:Sfn It also had (in 1921) three churches, Methodist, Lutheran, and Congregational; a bank; a hotel; and a feed mill.Template:Sfn In the 1970s, the Farmers Union Oil Company ran a fertilizer plant there.Template:Sfn
Celebrated residents at the turn of the 20th century included Canton Hobit, who reportedly weighed Script error: No such module "convert". and had to slide off his buggy with the use of a board.Template:Sfn One Dr Leach, the local physician who had moved there in 1907, drove its first automobile there in 1909.Template:Sfn
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