Editing Frederick, South Dakota (section)

==History==
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Frederick was a [[railway town]] [[plat]]ted and sold to pioneers by the [[Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad]], which completed track into it on September 12, 1881. Its grid of [[city block|blocks]] was aligned by [[compass]], with numbered avenues running north–south, and numbered streets running east–west. Main Street and Railway Avenue intersect at the grid's core. Incorporated on June 21, 1882, Frederick was named after the railroad's [[Finnish people|Finnish]] immigration agent and sales clerk—Kustaa "Frederick" Bergstadius.

[[File:City jail, Frederick, South Dakota LCCN2017706064.tif|thumb|City jail, Frederick, 1987]]
On July 2, 1921, a tornado swept through the downtown and "practically every building in the town was demolished", but only one resident was killed, after his home was torn from its foundation while he was trying to get his family into the storm cellar.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/04/archives/tornado-demolishes-practically-every-building-in-frederick-razed.html "Tornado Demolishes South Dakota Town— Practically Every Building in Frederick Razed, but Only One Person Killed"], ''The New York Times'', July 4, 1921, p. 2</ref>