The 1931 Tornado that Destroyed the Original Church Building

The tornado touched down at Concordia during the afternoon of Wednesday, May 27, 1931

Moorhead Daily News,  Thursday, May 28, 1931 "...Then swinging westward again towards the river, seeming almost to take aim at Concordia Lutheran Church, it [the tornado] took this building and laid it in a tangled mass of wreckage.  Several gravestones in the cemetery were turned over..."

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for a copy of their July/August 1997 Newsletter

 

 

 

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