The latest history articles and stories from Melissa.
How a railroad town platted in 1872 was nearly erased by an April 1921 tornado, why a few Cooper Street buildings still stand, and what the city's downtown reconstruction is trying to protect.
The long story of downtown Melissa — settled off the Blackland Prairie in the 1840s, platted by the railroad in 1872, flattened by disaster twice, and now being rebuilt block by block around Cooper Street and Highway 5.
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