Maitland, originally called Garden City and sometimes misspelled Midland, is a ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.

[citation needed] The town was called Garden City from 1877 to 1902, at which point it was renamed for Alexander Maitland, a former Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, who took over the local Penobscot Mine.

The Rainy Day (abandoned after 1880), Beltram, Gold Eagle, Echo, Deadbroke, Columbus, and Penobscot (later Maitland) Mines surrounded the town.

[4] The mined ore was roasted, or converted into an oxide, in a kiln, and then run through a chlorination process before it could be extracted.

[2] However, the gold ore was not pure; it also contained trace amounts of copper, arsenic, silver, bismuth, and antimony.

During the town's boom years, it had about 50 houses and stores, including a post office, livery barn, office building, boarding house, community hall known as the Maitland Club, school, two-story saloon, blacksmith shop, and machine shop.

The Penobscot Mining Company initially employed twelve men, but by the summer of 1902, the number of employees had risen to 125.

It was on False Bottom Creek, approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Central City and southwest of Spearfish.