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The C. C. Crowell mansion is shown on this postcard in about 1910, after it had been converted to the Crowell Memorial Home, for "superannuated ministers" after Crowell had moved to California in retirement.

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Over two decades before the city of Blair, Washington County or even Nebraska Territory existed, in 1831 the steamboat Yellowstone, belonging to the American Fur Company, ascended the Missouri River, headed for Fort Pierre. South Dakota, passing the later city’s site.

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Historian Jim McKee, who still writes with a fountain pen, invites comments or questions. Write to him at P.O. Box 5575, Lincoln, NE, 68505 or at jim@leebooksellers.com.

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