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. Lamoine is located northeast of Waterville on Road 8 NW. Today it consists of a few dryland wheat farms with about 8 or so residents.
History
Before Lamoine received its name, the town of Arup, Washington, was platted and filed on Nov. 20, 1905, by the immigrant farmer Nels P. Nelson (1861–1935). On January 3, 1906, the formation of the Town Site Arup was approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County, Washington. Arup was named after
Aarup
Aarup is a railway town in central Denmark with a population of 3,259 (1 January 2022),Great Northern Railway bypassed it and went through Withrow instead. That sealed the town's fate, and like many upstart towns during the early 1900s, Arup was never around long enough to build a future. Sometime between 1906 and 1909, the name of Arup disappears from records, and the name Lamoine starts being used. Why the name Arup was not kept is unclear.
The story of Lamoine's receiving its name was written and posted in the Withrow ''Banner'' by the paper's publisher, W. H. Murray:
Lamoine once featured a school, a church, a post office, a dance hall, a hardware store, a blacksmith shop, feed store, and even a baseball team. The post office of Lamoine was established in 1906 and remained in operation until 1910.
Some of the original family names that homestead this area during the late 1800s were Lanphere, Jensen, Cunningham, Preugschat, Nelson, Schmidt, Fletcher, and Moore.