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Nance County, Nebraska

Fullerton lies near the center of Nance County, of which it is the county seat, at the junction of the Loup and Cedar rivers, on the U. P. Ry., 218 miles due west of Omaha. It has a population of 1,600. The Cedar river is of inestimable value here in affording water power, as its course forms numerous horseshoes of from one to three miles in length. An excellent flouring mill is in operation here, having a daily capacity of 150 barrels of flour and from three to four carloads of feed. It utilizes the water of two turbine wheels of 48 and 60 inches respectively. Its mill race is 200 feet long, emptying back into the river again which has traversed one and a half miles and has a fall of 14 feet. These horseshoes are very numerous here and can be easily put to use. The Citizens State Bank is a local monetary institution recently incorporated and has a capital of $60,000. It occupies the lower floor of a splendid brick block recently erected of St. Louis pressed brick, costing $20,000. Other improvements consist of handsome residences and several brick blocks. The press is ably represented by the Fullerton Post, democratic, James W. Tanner editor, and the Nance County Journal edited by M. H. Barber. Frank S. Gay is still the popular proprietor of Gays hotel and is deserving of patronage. The churches are M. E., Presbyterian and Baptist, the two former having splendid edifices.

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Pictures at the Nance County Historical Museum

    

Mormon Encampment Road Marker South of Town

Pictures of the churches in Fullerton (2004)

Presbyterian

Methodist

Catholic

Baptist

Lutheran

(click on thumbnail for full size view)

Parade in Fullerton about 1900?

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Old images of other Fullerton Buildings (submitted by Jane Nearing)

• Public Schools 1890
• Post Card of Fullerton National Bank

• Fullerton National Bank about 1896
  (Ruby Irene Bake wrote in pencil on the back - "2d grade 1896")

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  Nance County's Courthouse 1894 - 1976

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