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Meckling was named for a grading contractor on the Dakota Southern Railway, built in 1872. George W. Gilbert became the first postmaster on 29 April 1873. Before that, the Lincoln Post Office, with Charles M. Taylor as postmaster on 27 July 1864, was nearby to the south. In 1869 it was a mile southwest, and in 1889 it was four miles south. Hans S. Myron was the Lincoln postmaster from 1873 to 1893.
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Meckling, South Dakota · United States
