Wanamaker, South Dakota

Wanamaker is a ghost town in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

History

A post office called Wanamaker was established in 1914, and remained in operation until 1951.[2] The town had the name of John Wanamaker, proprietor of Wanamaker's department store and 35th United States Postmaster General.[3]

gollark: No, my issue is that it isn't very good charity.
gollark: I am fine with people using land for community things. I just don't think it makes much sense to randomly rent out land cheaply if you have an issue with local land pricing.
gollark: I don't even know what economic system would actually work at this point but some markety thing seems to be the best available in a lot of domains.
gollark: Convince other people with money to give you land?
gollark: It sounds like one of those "technically accurate, but not very useful except maybe in a really specific context" definitions.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wanamaker (historical)
  2. "Jackson County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 66.

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