Ladner is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Harding County, in the
U.S. state
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of
South Dakota
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.
History
Ladner was laid out in 1911, and was named after an old brand of whiskey called rendal whiskey. The towns people reversed the letters to get ladner. Sometime in Ladners early history a feud over damming water between two teen brothers and older gentlemen the brothers beat, drug the man behind a horse and when the man didn't die right away they cut his throat in a pasture near Ladner knowns as “devils half acre” , the older brother was Hung and the younger brother sent to prison and later released . A post office called Ladner was established in 1910, and remained in operation until 1965.
References
Unincorporated communities in Harding County, South Dakota
Unincorporated communities in South Dakota
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