SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Mail service puts Dakota Territory towns on federal maps

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SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Mail service puts Dakota Territory towns on federal maps

South Dakota mail, 1889. Image: Western Cover SocietyWatertown property owners learned that every house and business in the city would be numbered 125 years ago this week as the Codington County seat prepared to join the ranks of South Dakota towns where the mailman could be relied upon to show up everyday. The Madison Daily Leader told its readers on Jan. 16, 1900, that a special agent of the U.S. Mail Service was sent to Watertown to arrange a…