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Jim McKee: Cheney, Davey two Lincoln neighbors

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(For the next two months, columnist Jim McKee will be contributing new columns on the first week of the month. On other weeks, the Journal Star will publish some of McKee's past columns. This one ran on Aug. 25, 2013.)

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Lincoln has marched steadily east, past the former village of College View, to the major jumble of retail and service businesses on Nebraska 2 toward Nebraska City. The settlement of Cheney is now on the very edge of Lincoln’s city limits and has lost virtually all of its old stores, depot and even school with only homes left of the once prosperous village. Although there are problems to be addressed, it seems only a matter of time before Cheney is absorbed quietly into greater Lincoln.

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Ghost towns of Nebraska: Echoes of a forgotten frontier

Long-forgotten towns have stories to tell, too

Every village, town and city in Nebraska had the same humble roots -- ambitious settlers and big dreams.

As the state was settled, moving from southeast to northwest, new communities sprang out of the prairie. While those that remain range from a sole resident (Monowi) to hundreds of thousands (Lincoln and Omaha), hundreds failed to take root and withered.

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1. Arago or Fargo (Richardson County)

One of the few photos extant of the village of Fargo/Arago shows a group of men apparently "testing" a batch of brew in front of a building that held the Sunflower Shoe Store.

Courtesy photo, Richardson County Historical Society

German settlers from New York found looking for new beginnings following the bank panic of 1857 discovered abundant cheap land along the Missouri River a few miles upriver of the town of Rulo.

They laid out a town on the site, which was chartered by the Territorial Legislature in 1860, and named it Arago, after French astronomer Dominique Francois Arago. That year's census reported 163 residents. But Arago exploded in the years that followed.

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2. Elvira (Merrick County)

This marker on the grave of Elvira Merrick, installed in 2017 at Detroit's Elmwood Cemetery, notes her role as the namesake for Merrick County.

Courtesy photo, Nancy Johnson

Only one of Nebraska's 93 counties is named for a woman -- and its initial county seat carried her name, too.

Merrick County was created by the Nebraska Territorial Legislature in 1858, named in honor of Elvira Merrick De Puy. Her husband, state Rep. Henry De Puy of Dodge County, future agent to the Pawnee Tribe at the Genoa Indian Agency, bestowed his wife's name upon both the county name (Merrick) and its initial seat of government (Elvira).

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3. Friedensau (Thayer County)

This photo shows the original Trinity Lutheran Church building, which has since been rebuilt, and the former town of Friedensau.

Courtesy photo, Trinity Lutheran Church

Before Deshler became an early industrial powerhouse, there was Friedensau.

In 1874, German Lutheran settlers who'd originally planted roots in Indiana and Illinois moved farther west to the prairies of southern Nebraska near the Little Blue River.

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4. Hope (Scotts Bluff County)

This 1965 photo shows the Hope School near Lake Minatare in Scottsbluff County. The building, near a former town site of the same name, had closed five years earlier when it merged with another school.

West Nebraska Family Research and History Center

As central and western Nebraska were settled by the first permanent residents in the late 1800s, many oppressed groups -- including blacks and Jews -- found a home on the prairie where they lived and worked alongside white settlers.

Scotts Bluff County hosted more than one of these communities. Most were short-lived as their first inhabitants moved on to other locales.

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5. Jamaica (Lancaster County)

This marker at the Jamaica North trailhead south of Lincoln notes the territorial road from Nebraska City to Fort Kearny passed through what would become the town of Jamaica in 1885.

John Schreier

The Jamaica name lives on in Lancaster County, long after the town dubbed that by its first settlers disappeared to history.

The Jamaica North Trail runs along a former Union Pacific railroad line that served the former town near 27th Street and Saltillo Road, with a small display. A new link connecting 27th Street to the South Beltway project will be named Jamaica Avenue after the long-gone community.

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6. Lakeland (Brown County)

A stone marker near Long Lake in southern Brown County commemorates the site of what's believe to be the only sod high school ever used in the United States. The two-room building operated from 1934-1941.

John Schreier

With much of Brown County's population along present-day U.S. 20, the sparsely populated areas in the southern half of this sprawling Sandhills county often had to get creative to get things done.

A post office named Lakeland opened in 1896 in the southwestern portion of the county, lasting until 1917. It took its name from the many lakes near the headwaters of the Calamus River. The surrounding area was more a loosely connected settlement than a town.

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7. Lee Park (Custer and Valley counties)

This Solomon Butcher photo shows cattle grazing just outside Lee Park, on the Custer County side of the town.

History Nebraska

The long-gone town of Lee Park has generated more than its fair share of confusion.

When it was platted in 1884, frontier historian and photographer Solomon Butcher wrote that it was situated in Custer County, adjacent to the line that separated Valley County. As it grew, however, additions placed portions of the community across the boundary into Valley County.

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8. Marsland (Dawes County)

This undated photo shows Marsland's Main Street.

Courtesy photo, History Nebraska

Founded by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1889, the small station of Marsland -- named after Thomas Marsland, the Lincoln man who was the railroad's general freight agent -- was platted in northwest Nebraska.

The community hit the ground running, with the nearby post office at the Corbin townsite moving to Marsland. A church soon followed, which held its first service less than two months and first wedding less than four months after the community was founded.

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9. Martha (Holt County)

This photo of Linda Lambert and the house that contained the original Martha post office appeared in the spring 2008 edition of Great Plains Quarterly.

Courtesy photo, Becky Buller

The town of Martha is no more, but its post office has returned home after a long journey from Holt County brought it to Lincoln for a brief stay.

Established in 1904, the post office and nearby community was named after Martha Rollin Porter, the mother-in-law of the first postmaster, Louis G. Lambert, and an area pioneer.

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10. Melrose (Harlan County)

The John Gahley homestead was built by the former stockade near Melrose.

Courtesy photo, History Nebraska

U.S. soldiers and a group of pioneers, primarily from Scandinavia, teamed up to build a stockade in southern Nebraska near the Republican River in 1870. The land had, until shortly beforehand, been prime hunting grounds fiercely contested by the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.

Those at the stockade would soon spread out into homesteads around the site, with two towns -- Alma, Melrose and Napoleon -- platted, but not built, nearby. Alma won the first election to be the seat of government in Harlan Conty, but irregularities led residents to successfully petition the governor to invalidate the initial vote and schedule a second election.

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11. Meridian (Jefferson County)

The remains of the foundation of Meridian's old church.

Courtesy photo, History Nebraska

The name "Meridian" still means something in Jefferson County as the name of the school district based in Daykin. But the school was far from the first entity in the county with that moniker.

In fact, it belonged to the initial county seat, which was first founded as Big Sandy after a nearby creek.

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12. Mud Springs (Morrill County)

Mud Springs Monument commemorates a Pony Express station in Morrill County and the springs that were the "first significant opportunity for obtaining water in a 24-mile stretch of barren overland trail," according to the National Park Service. The nearest town, Dalton, is located in Cheyenne County.

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In an otherwise arid stretch of Nebraska's Panhandle, natural springs in a long stretch between Lodgepole Creek and the North Platte River served as an oasis. And, long before other communities in the western part of the state were even dreamed up, Mud Springs was surveyed in 1856 and constructed with its first sod buildings in 1859.

Because of the scarcity of water sources in the region, Mud Springs became an important stop on a cutoff connecting the Oregon Trail to the Jules Trail into Colorado. In 1860, it became a Pony Express stop during the brief but illustrious run of the legendary route -- a letter was handed from one rider to another on the maiden journey west -- before becoming a transcontinental telegraph station the following year.

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13. Neapolis (Saunders County)

Looking down from the bluff near present-day Cedar Bluffs dubbed "Capitol Hill" -- because it was once destined to house the Nebraska State Capitol -- a farmstead stands off in the distance.

Courtesy photo, History Nebraska

Omaha began as Nebraska's territorial capital, and Lincoln later replaced it in that role.

But the Capital City almost didn't get that chance, because of tensions among delegates over whether those north or south of the Platte River would dominate.

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14. Pleasant Hill (Saline County)

Families pose for a photo outside the Pleasant Hill community building. The initials ZCBJ translate to "Western Bohemian Fraternal Association" in English, and such buildings are common in towns settled by Czech immigrants.

Courtesy photo, History Nebraska

In many counties, towns initially declared county seats failed to hold onto that distinction. Saline County saw its first two fade into obscurity.

The first, Swan City, was the result of an arbitrary declaration of the territorial Legislature, that faded away and saw its post office moved to nearby DeWitt. Despite being the acting county seat, it finished last in an 1871 election.

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15. Sartoria (Buffalo County)

John Swenson (left) and Anton Arp, with Sartoria's early buildings in the background.

Courtesy photo/Buffalo County Historical Society

By way of Sweden, Illinois and the Civil War battlefield in Tennessee that cost him an arm, John Swenson settled in northwestern Buffalo County in 1874.

In addition to serving two terms as superintendent of county schools, he founded and named the town that sprang up near his land along the South Loup River. He coined the name "Sartoria" after laboring to find a combination of letters that was easy to spell and could be understood by pioneers of all tongues.

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Historian Jim McKee, who still writes with a fountain pen, invites comments or questions. Write to him in care of the Journal Star or at jim@leebooksellers.com.

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