Dickinson was founding in 1891 by the family caring the same name, they endured several hardships in the founding of this now great city, but the first hardship was of course that of being a former family of circus midgets. They built mainly little homes, and had various tiny out houses, it became the basis of the high school mascot, and also explains the need for history to not be changed to fit the newly offended generation of big people, and their inability to except the honor and redeeming qualities of the Mighty Midget.