- Renner, South Dakota
Renner is an unincorporated community in Minnehaha County in the
U.S. state ofSouth Dakota . Renner has been assigned theZIP code of 57055. The demographics of Renner are not listed separately by theUnited States Census Bureau , but are included within those of Mapleton Township. The 2000 Census reported a total population of 2,128 for all of Mapleton Township.GR|2Renner lies just north of Sioux Falls on
South Dakota Highway 115 . It lies in the valley of theBig Sioux River on a line of theChicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad .Renner Lutheran Church, founded in 1858 as Nidaros Church by Norwegian immigrants, claims to be the oldest ELCA church in South Dakota.
After completing the first non-stop solo flight across the
Atlantic Ocean in May 1927,Charles Lindbergh made a stop in Renner onAugust 27 ,1927 . Contemporary estimates reported that between thirty and forty thousand people came to Renner to welcome him.Trivia
* Ben Olafson from the children's show, The
Puzzle Place was from Renner.References
External links
* [http://www.augie.edu/related/renner/renner3.html History of Renner Lutheran Church]
* [http://sio.midco.net/danstopicalstamps/southdakota6.htm Charles Lindbergh in Renner]
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