Proposed town/city: Laurent, McCook County, South Dakota

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent,_South_Dakota Laurent, South Dakota 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/national/21deaf.html?_r=1& NYTIMES article 

http://www.gallaudet.edu/clerc_center/welcome/laurent_clerc_the_man.html

     Who is Laurent Clerc? Read his biography here at the Gallaudet website. 

Laurent city was proposed, planned and funded, but never executed. There were pros and cons on both sides of the issue of a "'signing' town". The city was to be a city of and for the deaf and hard of hearing. The National Association of the Deaf(pro American Sign Language) supported a signing town. The Alexander Graham  Bell association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing(pro Oralists) were against it.