How did faith, south dakota get its name?

Question

How did faith, south dakota get its name?

Answer 1

Do you live near there, by any chance?

If you can, why not call up their historical society and ask them?

wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith,_Sout...

Local residents have been known to say the town was named because it took faith to live out on the prairie.[citation needed] However, the story of the city as documented in various informal, locally published histories, is that the town was named for Faith Rockefeller, one of the daughters of a major investor in the railroad responsible for founding the town. This is in keeping with the names of other towns on the route of the old railroad (now abandoned), such as Isabel, South Dakota. Faith was the permanent end of the railroad, a local spur off the Great Northern Railway across the Dakotas and Montana.