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My great grandparents were some of the early settlers in our little community just prior to 1900. They were Norwegian immigrants and farmers.
Coral City got it's name because while digging a dam on the north side of the creek, some odd-looking rock was found. One of the workers jokingly convinced the others that it was coral, and they thought it was funny enough that they decided to name the village after it.

Coral City has at most, 100 people living in it. Many of them, like myself, grew up here, left for a time and have moved back. Several occupy their old family homes and a few are carrying on the family businesses. I live within yelling distance of my childhood home, my grandpas retirement home and the 2-room country school I attended in my early years.

We are in farming country. We have a very strong Scandinavian influence, with German, Polish and Dutch well mixed in. We have a large Amish community surrounding us, and as a rule get along very well. We hold a lot of community events to raise money for the Amish schools, families who have had losses due to death or fire, etc... and when times get rough pull together for the benefit of all.

In our whole county, which consists of 29,000 people, we average one murder per year. Most often it is domestic violence or the result of a drunken brawl. The average home price here is less than $100,000 and median income is $43,000 per household so we are not a rich area by any stretch of the imagination.

Our most famous citizens have been Colonel Larson who was a national champion sharp shooter for many years and country singer Joe Diffy. Probably the most well known person who lives here is Ted Nuggent, who has an old farmstead and loves hunting our rolling hills.