During World War II, a prisoner-of-war internment camp was located directly north of here. The camp had its beginning in a request by the Holdredge New Industries Committee for a federal conscientious-objector camp to help relieve the severe . . . — — Map (db m251221) HM
1. You are here at Historical Plum Creek Cemetery. This historical cemetery has over 200 unmarked graves. The burials extend 17 feet beyond the cemetery fence line. Pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail (later known as the Overland Trail) and . . . — — Map (db m294512) HM
1849 - Gold rush in California brought thousands of people to Plum Creek heading for California.
1850 - 42,000 people traveled the trail through Plum Creek.
1850 - Cholera epidemic claimed hundreds of travelers along the . . . — — Map (db m294428) HM
An early morning attack on a train of 12 wagons at this spot resulted in the death of 11 men and the capture of Mrs. Thomas Morton and 9 year old Danny Marble. The attack was by Indian Dog Soldiers of the Cheyenne Tribe led by Chief Bull Bear. . . . — — Map (db m294411) HM
Dedicated to those daring pioneers, heralds of modern communication, transportation, and civilization by Phelps County, November 8, 1931 — — Map (db m294427) HM
The exact location of the Sarepta Fly grace is unknown. The headstone marking her grave was discovered early this century by children playing in a field on the old Dilworth Ranch, not far from this location. It had been covered by prairie grasses . . . — — Map (db m294540) HM
On the morning of August 8, 1864, a war party of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians attacked a Denver-bound freight wagon train killing thirteen men and taking captive Nancy Jane Morton of Sidney, Iowa, and nine-year old Daniel Marble of Council Bluffs, . . . — — Map (db m294410) HM
The Massacre was part of a concerted attack by the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians that ranged from Julesburg, Colorado to the valley of the Little Blue River in Nebraska. Ranches, stage stations, homesteaders' cabins and wagon trains were . . . — — Map (db m294412) HM
Through this valley passed the Oregon Trail, highway for early explorers, fur traders, California-bound gold seekers, freighters, and brave pioneers seeking new homes in the West. Traffic was especially heavy from 1843 to 1866. At times as many as . . . — — Map (db m45521) HM
Civil War veteran P. C. Funk came to Divide Township in Phelps County in 1877 and purchased 160 acres of land two miles north of the present town. By 1883 the Nebraska-Colorado Railroad, now the Burlington Northern, had extended its line as far west . . . — — Map (db m251231) HM
Thirty Swedish settlers in Harlan and Phelps counties organized Bethel Lutheran Church on November 12, 1877, at the home and post office of Gustaf Hanson, which was located seven miles south and two miles east of Holdrege in Harlan County.
Their . . . — — Map (db m251229) HM
Soils in the Holdrege series are recognized by features of their profile created by horizontal layers that are the result of the prairie environment. Holdrege soils exist on 1.8 million acres of landscape in central Nebraska that is the result of . . . — — Map (db m251291) HM
The great immigrant roads to the West which followed the Platte River brought the first settlers to this area. Beginning in the late 1850s, these frontiersmen operated stage stations, road ranches, and trading posts. An August attack upon a wagon . . . — — Map (db m251226) HM
