LaFoon was the first county seat of Faulk County. When this area was surveyed in October 1882 by Albert Mellen, Louis Kniesel, just south, and F.M. McMullen, a mile west, were squatting on the land. The first post office, Cecrops, with Nora Reppy as postmistress, was established on October 26 and later changed to LaFoon in honor of Alexander LaFoon, an early comer and Booth's partner in a corner store in the booming town near the northwest corner of Section 15-118-68. By 1886 the town had more than 20 buildings, including a school, Presbyterian church, and courthouse, a building originally constructed for a saloon but bought by the county when voters refused a license. Sylvia Smith, the first school teacher, was also the first Register of Deeds and later became the wife of Judge J.H. Bottom, who arrived soon after the survey. On November 5th, 1883, Governor Ordway appointed Humes, Jarvis and Humphrey to organize the county, and they designated LaFoon as county seat. That day C.A. Ritter shot a buffalo nearby, and buffalo steaks helped celebrate the occasion. LaFoon won the county seat contest of 1884 by three votes, but when Faulkton became a two railroad town in 1887, LaFoon declined and moved almost entirely to Faulkton. Its post office, the last vestige, was discontinued on January 30, 1891. Early settlers in the LaFoon area included the Cornwell, Smith, Shaver, Lenhoff, Misfeldt, Hutchinson, Schenck and Turner families.