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By Ruth VanSteenwyk, May 29, 2018
The Manchester Town Monument
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1 South Dakota, Kingsbury County, Iroquois — The Manchester Tornado
Just past suppertime, at about 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 24, 2003, the sky virtually fell on Manchester. A devastating F-4 category tornado with winds of more than 200 miles an hour came thundering in from the south. It hovered over the town, . . . Map (db m118672) HM
2 South Dakota, Kingsbury County, Iroquois — Harvy Dunn and Grace Ingalls Dow
Harvy Dunn Famed painter and illustrator Harvey Dunn was born on his parents' homestead just south of Manchester on March 8, 1884. He devoted his first 17 years to farm work, schooling, and drawing. By the age of 20, the young Dunn had studied . . . Map (db m118677) HM
3 South Dakota, Kingsbury County, Iroquois — Manchester, South DakotaPopulation 150,000
August 27, 1961. More than 150,000 people converged on a patch of land just south of Highway 14 for the Dakota Territory Centennial Goldrush. The event was reminiscent of a stampede caused by General George Custer when he announced that gold had . . . Map (db m118679) HM
 
 
  
  
 
 
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