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Saugatuck Tornado 1956

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This tornado destroyed the Stoughton Hall at the Presbyterian Camps, the Beach House at Oval Beach, the Lighthouse, homes and farms. The broadcast team rates the 1956 tornado as an F-5 (the highest possible) and theorizes that the damage was actually the work of two tornadoes.

Weather, extreme

Winthers, Sally

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Kalamazoo Lighthouses 1839/1858/1956-presentCook-Bennett-Denison Mansion b.1916/1920Sheridan, John "Jack" O. 1938-Schoeneich, James Carl 1927-1992Schoeneich, Eugene "Gene"Saugatuck Beach House

Torando April 3, 1956

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