Colman, SD

Colman is a Moody County city that began as Allentown after the Milwaukee Railroad crossed the area in 1890. The railroad supplied the original reason for the settlement, while the name Colman came later and stuck. Today the town sits in eastern South Dakota's open agricultural country, with a golf course, campground, ballfield, and local events adding present-day pieces to the old rail-town map. Colman is the kind of place where the railroad is not just background history; it is the reason the town has a beginning to talk about.