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        Richardson county was temporarily organized by a proclamation of Acting Governor Thomas B. Cuming, dated November 23, 1854, and was organized and its boundaries defined by an act approved March 7, 1855, with the seat of justice located at Archer. Its boundaries were redefined by an act approved January 26, 1856. Richardson county is one of the eight original counties. It was named for William A. Richardson of Illinois, who later became the third territorial Governor of Nebraska, 1858.
        Richardson, Monterey county, California, was so named by settlers from Richardson county, Nebraska, in honor of their old home.

• Arago. This town was founded in 1858 by a colony of Germans from Buffalo, New York. It was named by its German citizens in honor of the noted French astronomer and natural philosopher, Dominique Francois Arago (1786-1853). It was incorporated as a city by an act of the legislature approved January 10, 1860, and was the first town in Richardson county to be so incorporated. Arago was the early metropolis of Richardson county and during the flourishing period of river transportation was an important port on the Missouri river and carried on an extensive commerce. The town gave the name to the precinct. The old town-site is now known as Fargo. The present village of Arago is about five miles west of the old site and the name was transferred with the removal of the post office from the old to the new site. The post office has been discontinued.
  
• Archer. This village was the original county seat of Richardson county. It was named for its founder, Robert T. Archer, the first sheriff of the county. The town-site was abandoned in 1857.
  
• Barada. This place is situated in Barada precinct and it and the precinct were named after one of the first settlers, Antoine Barada (1807-1887), a French-Omaha Indian half-breed whose wife was a French woman. He named the village after himself. His descendants still live in the vicinity.
  
• Dawson. This town is legally named Noraville, but by common usage is called Dawson. It was laid out in 1871 and is called Dawson in honor of Joshua Dawson, an early settler, (and the Dawson family) who built a flour and feed mill in the vicinity in 1868.
  
• Falls City. Falls City receives its name from the fact that it is located near the falls in the Great Nemaha river. The town was incorporated in May 17, 1858. The county seat was located temporarily here and permanently by an election pursuant to an act of the legislature approved January 13, 1860. It was incorporated by an act of the legislature and approved on the same date, January 13, 1860. It is the present county seat of Richardson county. The precinct has the same name.
  
• Fargo. A one-time village on the Missouri river, in Arago precinct. Apparently so named after the Wells, Fargo Express Company. It is located on the site of old Arago. The post office has been discontinued.
  
• Humboldt. O. J. Tinker, the founder of this town, who settled in the vicinity in 1857, named it in honor of the famous German scientist and traveler, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt who was born in Berlin, September 14, 1769. Mr. Tucker was a great admirer of Baron von Humboldt. The town was platted in the spring of 1868. Another account relates that the name was suggested by Edward P. Tinker, a son of O. J. Tinker, who was a member of Company C, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, of the Civil War. While in the service he spent a few days in Humboldt, Tennessee, and being favorably impressed with the southern city offered the name as a suitable one for his home place. The precinct has; the same name.
  
• Middleburg. An inland place in Nemaha precinct, on the south Nemaha, so called because of its midway position. It was a little mail station from the pioneer days. The post office has been discontinued.
  
• Nims. This is a small inland place in Nemaha precinct. It was named after its founder, Mrs. Betsey U. Nims.
  
• Preston. The station at Preston was originally called Bluffton, and the post office Sac, on account of the close proximity of the Sac and Fox Indians. Shortly after the town was platted, James; S. Eatough, a storekeeper, suggested that the name of both the station and the office should be changed to Preston, in honor of his former home in England.
  
• Rulo. This town was laid out in 1857 on land belonging to the wife of Charles Rouleau. It is for her that the town is named and it should be spelled Rouleau, but the pronunciation led to the modified spelling Rulo. It was incorporated by an act of the legislature approved November 1, 1858. The precinct has; the same name.
  
• Salem. This; town was named Salem, meaning city of peace, after the biblical name. As the Indians were numerous in the vicinity this name was given hopefully to the town. It was laid out on January 30, 1855, by Justus C. Lincoln (a relative of President Abraham Lincoln) and two other men, Thomas Hare and J. W. Roberts, who established the first post office and store. The county seat was temporarily located here February 9, 1857, permanently on October 3, 1858. It was incorporated by an act of the legislature approved February 10, 1857. The precinct has the same name.
  
• Shubert. The town of Shubert was named in honor of Henry W. Shubert (1834-1909). one of the early settlers of Richardson county, Nebraska.
  
• Stella. This town was laid out in November, 1881, and named after Stella Clark, a daughter of J. W Clark, of Covington, Kentucky, who owned the land on which the town-site is located.
  
• Straussville. Gustave Strauss named the plat of this town for himself when it was laid out on his land a few miles; north of Falls City on the Missouri Pacific railroad.
  
• Verdon. This town was laid out by John A. Hall and his wife Julia, who filed the plat February 22, 1882. The railroad company suggested the name Verdon and it was approved by Mr. Hall. It is not definitely known just why this name was chosen, but the report is that it was built out of the word verdure.
  

        Rock county was so named on account of its rocky soil. This county was formed from Brown county by vote November 6, 1888.

• Bassett. This town was named in honor of S. W. Bassett, a ranchman, who in 1871 took into this part of the country its first herd of cattle, in order to test the quality and fitness of the native grasses for cattle food. Thus he became the founder of one of the most important industries in the state of Nebraska. Bassett is the county seat of Rock county. The precinct has the same name.
  
• Buell. An inland locality in Pewaukee precinct, apparently named for a local resident.
  
• Butka. Butka was named for its first postmaster, Frank Butka. The town was originally located, about forty years ago, on the Calamus river, eleven miles southwest of its present site. Since then it has been moved three times, each time retaining its original name.
  
• Cuba. An inland locality near the Niobrara river in Brinkerhoff precinct. The name is probably for Cuba, Illinois. Many villages in the United States have this name all of which directly or indirectly are named for the island of Cuba.
  
• Duff. This post office was given the name Duff by the U. S. post office department at Washington, D. C., probably for a local resident.
  
• Hammond. The town of Hammond was named by the United States post office department.
  
• Horsefoot. When this post office was established in 1905, Mr. Best, one of the settlers in the vicinity, tried to have a Best post office, but since there was already a post office by that name in the state, he was asked to select another name. He then sent the post office department his cattle brand, which was a horse's foot, and since that time this post office has been called Horsefoot, Nebraska.
  
• Kirkwood. An inland locality in Kirkwood precinct, both apparently named for a local settler.
  
• Malvern. An inland locality in Kinkaid precinct.
  
• Mariaville. The Mariaville post office was named for Harriet Maria Peacock, the infant daughter of Thomas Peacock, in whose home the office was established in the summer of 1882. This child is supposed to have been the first white child in this vicinity on the prairies of Nebraska.
  
• Newport. This town was named after Newport bridge, which is built across the Niobrara river about ten or twelve miles north of the town-site. It was so named because it was at that time the town nearest the bridge. The precinct has the same name.
  
• Perch. An inland locality and a former post office in Blaine precinct.
  
• Pony Lake. Pony Lake post office was named for Pony Lake, a beautiful body of water about one half mile from the present office. The lake was so named because in the early days an Indian boy was thrown and killed on its banks by a wild pony.
  
• Rock. This place was named after the county in which it is located. It is in Center precinct.
  
• Rose. This name was chosen by Mr. C. A. Davison, the first postmaster, on account of the abundance of wild roses in the vicinity.
  
• Selden. An inland post office in Selden precinct. It was so named for W. A. Selden, a pioneer settler and the first postmaster.
  
• Shebesta. This post office is now discontinued but it was named in honor of a homesteader, Charles Shebesta.
  
• Sybrant. Sybrant post office was named in honor of David O. Sybrant.
  
• Thurman. A former inland post office in Thurman precinct, both probably named after a local resident.
  

        Saline county was surveyed in 1855 and organized in 1868. The name Saline means salt and it was given to the county because of the supposition that somewhere within its boundaries were to be found numerous extensive salt springs or salt deposits. This supposition, however, has proved to be unfounded. Its boundaries were defined by an act of the legislature approved March 6, 1855; reestablished and redefined by an act approved January 26, 1856.

• Crete. In 1863 Mr. J. C. Bickle owned some land in what is now the southwest part of Crete. He had it platted under the name Blue River City, and the plat was recorded on August 3, 1870. Mr. Bickle lived in a log house north of this plat and kept the post office, which he called Crete post office because he and his wife had come from Crete, Illinois. In the fall of 1870, the South Platte Land Company purchased about a section of land north and east of Blue River City and filed a plat of a town on this land November 26, 1870. The following spring the two towns were consolidated and Mrs. Bickle was given the honor of naming the new town. She chose Crete, because she came from Crete, Illinois, and had been living at Crete post office for several years. The limits of the town were defined by an act of the legislature approved March 7, 1871. The precinct has the same name.
  
• DeWitt. This town was named for a Mr. DeWitt, supposedly a railroad man. It was incorporated by an act of the legislature approved February 13, 1857. The precinct has the same name. A near-by point on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad is known as DeWitt Junction.
  
• Dorchester. The site of Dorchester was selected by the Burlington and Missouri Railroad Company in 1870. It was first platted as DeWitt, but soon afterwards was platted as Dorchester. There are two versions concerning the origin of the name. One is that the town was named for a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, the home of some of the officials of the railroad. This is probably the correct explanation of the origin of the name. The other version is that Dorchester was named for Dorchester, England, by an English engineer who was surveying for the government. Dorchester, Massachusetts, was named for Dorchester, England. The precinct is also known as Dorchester.
  
• Friend. The town of Friend was surveyed in November, 1873, and was named in honor of Charles E. Friend, on whose farm the site is located. Mr. Friend was the first storekeeper and postmaster of the town. The precinct has the same name.
  
• Plato. An inland locality in Monroe precinct, probably named for Plato, Illinois. The name derives from the philosopher of ancient Greece.
  
• Pleasanthill. A locally descriptive name tor an inland village in Pleasant Hill precinct.
  
• Shestak. A station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad in Big Blue precinct. It was named for an early Bohemian emigrant, Vac. Sestak. The word derives from the Bohemian shestak, originally sesták, a twenty-heller piece of money (from sest six, hence a sixpence) of a pre-war value of about five cents, present value three-fifths of a cent, and is popularly known as a sesták.
  
• Swanton. Originally named Morris for an old settler in the vicinity. There was, however, another town in the state named Morris, so the name of this town was changed to Swanton, because the site was located on Swan creek, in Swan Creek precinct.
  
• Tobias. Tobias Castor (1840-1901) was a very prominent man in Saline county and this town was originally named Castor in his honor. But on account of the fact that there was a town in Nebraska named Custer, it was thought best to change the name Castor to Tobias, in order to avoid confusion of mail.
  
• Western. The town of Western was established in 1872. It was named in honor of Mr. West, a bachelor homesteader, on whose farm a post office was established in 1871.
  
• Wilber. The site of Wilber was laid out in 1872 by Professor C. D. Wilber of Illinois, for whom the town was named. The date of founding is usually given as 1873. It is the county seat of Saline county and is in Wilber precinct.
  

        Sarpy county was named in honor of Colonel Peter A. Sarpy (1804-1865), a conspicuous figure in early Nebraska history. It was once a part of Douglas county but was separated and organized into a new county by an act approved February 7, 1857.

• Bellevue. Bellevue is the oldest town in the state of Nebraska. It was organized as a city in 1856 but settlement in the vicinity goes back to a much earlier date. An old tradition accounts for the naming of Bellevue. It is said that in 1805 the famous trapper and fur trader, Manuel de Lisa (1772-1820), the first white settler of Nebraska, came to the spot where the city now stands, and when he saw the beautiful scenery about him, exclaimed, "Belle vue." He then staked out his fur trader's cabin and began the first white settlement in Nebraska. Authentic history shows that Lisa was in the vicinity in 1807 and 1809. Bellevue was incorporated by an act of the legislature approved March 15, 1855, and amended on the same date.
  
• Chalco. Chalco is a village on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad in the northern part of Sarpy county. There is a town and a lake, both named Chalco, situated twenty-five miles southeast of the city of Mexico. The word chalco is from the Greek chalkos, brass (so named from the color), referring to the native mineral or copper ore. Chalcocite is a native copper sulphide, a mineral with a black color and a metallic luster. Chalcopyrite or copper pyrites or yellow copper ore, is a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It is probable that the place in Mexico and the one in Nebraska derived their names either directly or indirectly from the presence or supposed presence of native copper ores. Chalco, Nebraska, is the only place so named in the United States.
  
• Fort Crook. The village of Fort Crook was named after the military post, Fort Crook, which it adjoins. Fort Crook military was named for General George Crook (1828-1890) who fought the Civil War.
  
• Gilmore. This place was named after an official of the Union Pacific railroad.
  
• Gretna. Gretna was laid out and platted by the Lincoln Land Company in October, 1887. It was incorporated on July 10, 1889. The name is of Scottish origin, probably for Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
  
• La Platte. The original town of La Platte was located about1855. Because of its proximity to the Platte river, the town was subject to overflows. On this account a new town was platted west of the original site and was named Larimer in honor of its founders. The present town of La Platte was laid out by the Omaha and Southwestern Railroad Company in 1870 and includes a part of the old Larimer site. It was named because of its situation in the Platte River valley.
  
• Meadow. The site of this town was originally a meadow and on this account the town was called Meadow.
  
• Melia. A station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad in Forest City precinct. The name is local in origin and for an early resident in the vicinity.
  
• Papillion. This town was named after Papillion creek which flows through the town. The name Papillion (papillon) is taken from the French language and means butterfly. According to local tradition the early French explorers named the creek Papillion because many butterflies were found along its banks. The town was incorporated by an act of the legislature approved February 13, 1857. It is the county seat of Sarpy county.
  
• Richfield. The locallty of Richfield was setfled about 1890. The town is situated in the heart of one of the richest farming communities in the west and it is from this fact that it received the name Richfield.
  
• Springfield. The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company surveyed and platted the town in November, 1881. Mr. J. D. Spearman who owned the land on which the town was platted, named it Springfield because of the abundance of large springs in the vicinity.
  

        Saunders county was named for Alvin Saunders, governor of Nebraska territory, 1861-1867. The county was originally named Calhoun but the name was changed by an act of the legislature approved January 8, 1862. The original county was established and
the boundaries defined by an act approved January 26, 1856; and redefined November 3, 1858.

• Ashland. This town was named by Mr. Argyle after Ashland, the home of his ideal statesman, Henry Clay, near Lexington, Kentucky. It was organized on March 4, 1870.
  
• Cedar Bluffs. So named because there is an abrupt bluff in the vicinity on the Platte river where some cedar trees grew. The precinct has the name Cedar for the same reason.
  
• Ceresco. Richard Nelson and Hod Andrus named this town after Ceresco, Michigan, from which they came in 1868. Mr. Nelson was the first postmaster at Ceresco, Nebraska. The word Ceresco is supposed to derive from Ceres, the goddess of corn and harvests, or from the Latin verb cresco, "I grow."
  
• Colon. The first postmaster here was a man by the name of Taylor who came from Michigan and established the office at an early date. He named this office after Colon, Michigan. At that time the office was about two miles north of its present location. When the town was started the Colon post office was moved on the town-site and its name adopted by the town.
  
• Ithaca. The name Ithaca was suggested by the county surveyor of this locality. He was from New York state and was a great admirer of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. On this account he wished the post office to be named Ithaca. An old settler who still lives in the neighborhood was consulted as to the name of the new post office. He recalled the island of Ithaca in ancient Greece, the fabled home of Ulysses, and agreed with the surveyor to name the new town Ithaca.
  
• Leshara. The town of Leshara was named after a Pawnee Indian chief, Pita Lesharu who, with his tribe, lived in this locality in the early days. The translation is Pita (man), Lesharu (chief). Leshara is in Pohocco precinct.
  
• Malmo. The Swedish residents of this town named it after the city and county of Malmo, Sweden.
  
• Mead. This town was first named Alvin by the railway company but as there was another Alvin in the state the name was changed to Saunders, after the county, when the post office was established. Later the name was changed to Mead in honor of a railroad official.
  
• Memphis. Named after Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the early settlers in the vicinity were from Tennessee. The name derives from the city in ancient Egypt. The Greek word Memphis is from the Coptic Menfe, a corruption of the Egyptian Men-nefer, meaning "good abode" or "pleasant dwelling". Men-nefer was the name of a pyramid in the vicinity of the ancient city and the name later extended to the whole city.
  
• Morse Bluff. This town was named for Charles W. Morse of Northbend, Nebraska, who once owned the land on which the site is located. The name Bluff is not at all descriptive of the place, but was merely added to prevent confusion with another Morse on the same railroad line. The precinct is known as Morse Bluffs.
  
• Plasi. An inland locality in Elk precinct. The name is apparently of Bohemian origin and is for a local resident. The word derives from the Bohemian plasi', he frightens or scares, verb plasiti, to frighten or scare.
  
• Platte River. A junction on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, so named from the near-by Platte river.
  
• Pohocco. The name of a locality and a precinct in the northeastern part of Saunders county. The word derives from Pahuk, meaning headland or promontory, the Pawnee Indian name of a prominent hill in the vicinity, on the Platte river, but outside the limits of the precinct. The hill is the location or reference for an important legend of the Pawnee mythology.
  
• Prague. When the railroad was built here and the location of the station selected, the residents requested the railroad company to name the station Prague. The surrounding country for miles was settled by Bohemians and they selected the name Prague after the capital of their country. For this reason a near-by precinct is named Bohemia.
  
• Rescue. A village on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad in Chester precinct.
  
• Sand Creek. A locally descriptive name for a locality in Douglas precinct.
  
• Swedeburg. This town was so named because of the large number of Swedes who settled in the vicinity. It was laid out by the Pioneer Town-Site Company in 1886.
  
• Touhy. Named after Patrick Touhy, a local employee for many years of the Union Pacific railway, who advanced from section hand to section foreman and later to higher positions.
  
• Valparaiso. The Johnson family who settled in this vicinity in 1866 considered it the "Vale of Paradise" and so named the town Valparaiso. They had first called the place Raccoon Forks, because three creeks joined on the old homestead. Mr. Johnson was the first postmaster here and at that time the post office at Lincoln was not established. The railroad was not yet built and mail was carried on horseback from Fremont.
  
• Wahoo. There is some dispute as to the origin of the name Wahoo. One explanation is that it is derived from the "euonymus" or "wahoo," commonly known as the "burning bush," which grows on the banks of Wahoo creek. This shrub was a medicinal plant of the Indians, according to traditional lore. From these facts it is thought that the name came from the wahoo shrub and the home of the "medicine man" of the tribe. Another explanation is that Wahoo comes from "pahoo" which means "not very bluffy," but this is not very probable, judging from the rugged appearance of the country. Gannett's work on place names states that "wahoo" is an Indian word said to mean some species of elm. Wahoo is the county seat of Saunders county. A neighboring precinct has the same name.
  
• Wann. A village on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad in Marble precinct.
  
• Weston. This town was named by the officials of the Union Pacific railroad company.
  
• Woodcliff. A locally descriptive name for a station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad, near the Platte river, in Pohocco precinct.
  
• Yutan. This village is named for an Otoe chief whose name is variously spelled and variously pronounced, one form being Ietan.
  

        This county receives its name from a prominent, local bluff known as Scott's Bluff, a noted landmark by the side of the Platte valley. It is situated about three miles southwest and across the North Platte river from the city of Scottsbluff. It is 4662 feet above the sea level and about 800 feet above the North Platte river at its base. It is named for Hiram Scott, an early traveller, who perished at its foot. Scotts Bluff county was formed from Cheyenne county by vote November 6, 1888.

• Bradley. This station is on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad, near the east line of Scotts Bluff county, in Highland precinct.
  
• Brockhoff. Brockhoff is a station on the Union Pacific railroad and was named apparently for a local resident.
  
• Caldwell. A post office was established at this place on the overland trail, with William Lancaster as postmaster, about 1871 or 1872 and called "Little Moon." This office was discontinued about 1874. The present post office was established about 1886 and named after an early, local resident.
  
• Covert. This station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad is a siding for loading sugar beets. It was probably named for a railroad man.
  
• Dorrington. This inland place is in the southwest part of Scotts Bluff county. It was named for F. M. Dorrington, who did some of the early government surveying in western Nebraska.
  
• Gering. The town of Gering, in Gering precinct, was named in honor of Martin Gering, a Civil War veteran, banker, and member of the original town-site company formed in 1887. Mr. Gering died about five years ago in Washington, D. C. Martin Gering and Oscar W. Gardner, under the firm name of Gering and Gardner, established the pioneer store of the town. Mr. Gardner was the first postmaster and the first notary public. Gering is the county seat of Scotts Bluff county.
  
• Haig. Haig or Haigville is a station on the Union Pacific railroad and was named for Harry Haig, an old friend of John Clay who was a local cow-boy, in the early days, with the Two Bar outfit. Harry Haig is a relative of some of the Haigs who were generals in the English army during the recent war. The post office is called Haigville to distinguish it from Hoag, Gage county, and to prevent confusion of mail.
  
• Henry. This town was named in honor of a boy named Henry Nichols who was drowned in the Platte river about a year before the town was started. His father, Yorick Nichols, at one time owned most of the town-site.
  
• Heyward. Heyward or Heyward Siding is a station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad. It was named after Heyward G. Leavitt who was active in establishing the sugar industry in the North Platte valley.
  
• Hope. This place is a community center established by Henry Nehne, a Boer, who refused to live under English rule in South Africa. The name, Hope, is expressive of the mental attitude or anticipations of the residents.
  
• Larissa. This inland post office is one of the first established in Scotts Bluff county. It was named for a daughter of W. B. Cole, the postmaster.
  
• McGrew. This place is a station on the Union Pacific railroad and was named for a promoter of the town-site who was a resident of Omaha.
  
• Melbeta. This place is a station on the Union Pacific railroad and a shipping point for sugar beets and for this reason was so named. Melbeta is of German origin and is locally considered to mean "sugar beets."
  
• Minatare. Named after the Minnetaree Indians, a tribe of the Siouan stock. It is situated in Tabor precinct which was so named by George W. Fairfield, a local surveyor, after his son-in-law Wian Tabor.
  
• Mitchell. In the early days of the Overland or Oregon trail through the Platte valley in this vicinity a fort or stockade was built near the western base of Scotts Bluff by Bruce Hubbard and named by him Fort Fontenelle, after Lucien Fontenelle, one of his partners. Later Lucien Fontenelle was in charge of the fort and he renamed it Fort Mitchell, after his friend David D. Mitchell. Because of Fort Mitchell the pass by Scotts Bluff was called Mitchell Pass, the valley Mitchell valley, the precinct Mitchell precinct, the bridge Mitchell bridge, and the irrigation system Mitchell ditch. When the post office was established for this vicinity it was given the same name, Mitchell.
  
• Morrill. This town was named in honor of Charles H. Morrill, originally of New Hampshire and Iowa, who was president of the Lincoln Land Company and at one time owned a great deal of land in the vicinity. Mr. Morrill was for twelve years a regent of the State University of Nebraska. He now lives at Stromsburg, Nebraska. Morrill county was named after him.
  
• Roubedeau. A pass in Scotts Bluff county, Nebraska, named for Antoine Roubedeau, a French trader. A river in Delta county, Colorado, is also named for him.
  
• Scottsbluff. Scottsbluff is the most imposing of the elevations in the Platte valley. The town is named from the ridge or bluff which in turn took its name from a noted mountaineer, Hiram Scott, whose body was found at the foot of the bluff.*
  ( * See the account of the tragic manner of Scott's death in Edwin Bryant's What I Saw in California, 1846, 1847, various editions; also Washington Irving's The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. )
• Sedan. Sedan is an inland place in Tabor precinct. It was formerly a post office on the main route from Gering to Alliance.
  
• Snell. This place is a station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad. It is named for an early, local resident.
  
• Toohey. An early name for this station on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad was Stewart Siding. It is believed that Toohey was named for a railway official.
  
• Woodrow. This inland post office is located in the southern part of Scotts Bluff county. It was established about 1913 or 1914 and named after Woodrow Wilson, then president of the United States, by C. L. Schuler, the postmaster.
  

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