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Quarter Horse Stallion
Doc is a gorgeous 9 yr. old quarter horse / morgan cross. Doc has done many..
Woonsocket, South Dakota
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Quarter Horse
Stallion
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Woonsocket, SD
SD
$1,500
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About Wessington Springs, SD

The Wessington Springs townsite was founded in 1880 and platted in 1882, early in the era of agricultural settlement in the region. The town's boom era began in 1903, when a branch line of the Milwaukee Road railroad was constructed into the town from the east. The town was the home of Wessington Springs College, an institution of higher learning that existed from 1887 until 1968. There is a baseball field in town that hosts an amateur baseball team named the Wessington Springs Owls On June 18, 2014 the town of Wessington Springs was hit by a tornado. At approximately 7:45 PM the tornado tore through the heart of Wessington Springs and 50+ homes were destroyed, and 77 people were left homeless.