The Hamlin Garland Memorial Highway
Brown County, South Dakota
Photograph courtesy of John Ahouse
In June 1936, the Brown County Commissioners named a section of Brown County Highway 11, for a total of 10 miles, "the Hamlin Garland Memorial Highway." This section travels past the homestead of Garland's father, Richard, who homesteaded in 1881. In 1998, new signs were placed along this stretch of paved road noting the name of the highway.
GARLAND TOWNSHIP--This township was named after Hamlin Garland, a novelist, who lived in this area with his pioneer parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Garland. The land south and west of Columbia [and Ordway] was immortalized by this writer in "Among the Corn Rows," and "A Son of the Middle Border."
--Information courtesy of Gene Aisenbrey
Hamlin Garland Society of Aberdeen, SD