1,733 Miles from Where? Kearney, Nebraska’s 1733 Identity
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Kearney has long promoted itself as the “Midway City” located halfway between the coasts, exactly 1,733 miles from both Boston and San ...
Kearney
What We Found
Plenty of Beer
Readers of the Kearney Daily Hub on August 16, 1930, must have been startled to read that there was "Plenty of Beer to be Had in Kearney and Many Imbibe it." State and ...
Skating Under Cover: Kearney’s Indoor Ice Rink
Ice skating enthusiasts in Nebraska braved winter weather and rough ice before the advent of the indoor rink made "skating under cover" a more comfortable experience. ...
Sydenham’s Praise of Central Nebraska
Moses Sydenham in an 1870 letter to George S. Harris, described Kearney, Adams, Clay, Webster, Franklin, and Lincoln counties. Harris was then land commissioner of the ...
George Francis Train in Kearney
George Francis Train (1829-1904) was an author, orator, businessman, and larger-than-life financial promoter. His connection to Nebraska resulted from his interest in ...
Watson, H. D., and the Watson Ranch
In 1888 H. D. Watson, a Kearney booster during its boom days of the late 1880s, established the historic Watson Ranch. He had come West from Greenfield, Massachusetts, ...
William C. Holden, Nebraska Newspaperman
William C. Holden (1842-1901), remembered as one of Nebraska's most aggressive and colorful newspapermen, was associated with papers in Harlan County and in Kearney and ...
The Instant Town
Adjusting to rapid change is a trial we associate with "modern" life. But a hundred years agoNebraskans witnessed change almost overnight as new portions of the state ...
Irrigation
One of the early difficulties with farming and development in Nebraska was associated with the semiarid climate. The possibilities of irrigation received almost ...
Kearney and Black Hills Stage
The discovery of gold in the Black Hills in 1874 led a number of Nebraska communities, including Kearney, to promote themselves during the next several years as ideal ...
Kearney Cotton Mill
A cotton mill in Nebraska? It really happened in the 1890s. The two-story mill opened in the spring of 1892, employing hundreds of workers—many of them women and ...
A Kearney Ghost Story
Perhaps in anticipation of goblins and ghoulies and long-legged beasties, the Kearney Weekly Hub offered this "Kearney Ghost Story" October 3, 1890.
"There was ...
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