Lindsay, South Dakota

Lindsay is a ghost town in Stanley County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

History

The town had the name of Charles Lindsay, a local merchant.[1] A post office called Lindsay was established in 1902, and remained in operation until 1945.[2] The post office coords were 44.7191492°N 100.9962603°W / 44.7191492; -100.9962603.[3]

gollark: There are better systems for electing representatives than the extremely terrible first-past-the-post one in use, but nobody is using those. I don't trust people enough to expect direct democracy to produce remotely favourable outcomes. But the politicians who get elected are also quite bad, so who knows.
gollark: How long do eels take to recharge? If you swap out the eels fast enough, it should be possible to keep a current constantly.
gollark: "Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether" is another good one they will probably *also* complain about.
gollark: “You need the power of the logarithm.” is apparently a quote by "Rich Hickey", which happens to be written on a page I have open on some persistent tree datastructure.
gollark: “There's nothing in the rulebook that says a golden retriever can't construct a self-intersecting non-convex regular polygon.” ← very quotable quote

References
  1. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 48.
  2. "Stanley County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lindsay Post Office (historical)


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