Bangor

The granite's tally of five moves leaves out what settled them. When the Milwaukee Road built west about 1900 it passed Bangor by and founded Selby on its line, a few miles north, and the two towns traded the county seat back and forth for years. South Dakota Magazine and the county courthouse histories date the records' final move to Selby in 1908, a year before the stone's date; a whole block was set aside there, and the brick courthouse finished in 1911 still serves. Bangor's buildings followed the records north, and a small cemetery remains.

What the plaque says

This monument marks the site of Bangor County seat of Walworth County 1884-1909 Scranton 1883-1884 Bangor 1884-1904 Selby 1904-1905 Bangor 1905-1909 Selby 1909-1950 Erected 1950 by the Selby Commercial Club

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sitting Bull and Sakakawea Monuments — 22 mi
  A granite head carved by the Crazy Horse sculptor over a grave dug up at Fort Yates by night in 1953, on a bluff above the Missouri on the Standing Rock Reservation.

More markers nearby

• You Are Now on the 100° Meridian — 1.9 mi
• The Mickelson Governors — 4.6 mi
• Dedicated to the Indian People in Honor of the "Fool Soldier Band" — 21 mi
• Sakakawea — 22 mi