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7 unusual facts about Lafayette County


Danny Ormand

Previously the Fire Chief of Stamps, Arkansas and the County Sheriff of Lafayette County, Ormand was appointed as head of the state agency, ACIC by Mike Beebe on January 1, 2009.

Henry S. Magoon

Born in Monticello, Wisconsin, Magoon attended the Rock River Seminary, Mount Morris, Illinois, and was graduated from the Western Military College, Drennon, Kentucky, in 1853.

John Brown Lennon

Lennon was born in Lafayette County, Wisconsin on October 12, 1850 to John Alexander and Elizabeth Fletcher (Brown).

Lafayette County, Missouri

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

Light in August

Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers around two strangers who arrive at different times in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a fictional county based on Faulkner's home, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Maurice Garland Fulton

Maurice Garland Fulton was born on December 3, 1877 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Wisconsin Highway 176

Control over the road was given to Lafayette County in 1999; it is now designated as County Highway D.


Yellowstone Lake State Park

Located near Blanchardville in Lafayette County, in the town of Fayette, the man-made lake is sustained by the Yellowstone River which enters on the northwest side, and the man-made dike built on the southeast side.


see also

Glen Kolkmeyer

He was a former president of Missouri Propane Gas Commission, Missouri Propane Gas Association and Lafayette County Firefighters Association.