On Grand Avenue just south of G Street, on the left when traveling south.
Dedicated to the Charles H. Jones, Truman Freeland, and Thomas McClimans families, first settlers in Garfield County; and the many other pioneers who followed. — — Map (db m181897) HM
On South 8th Avenue just south of H Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1872, settlement pioneered by Charles H. Jones in what is now Garfield County, followed the North Loup River northwestward to its junction with the Calamus River. In 1875, the post office serving the area near the confluence of the rivers was . . . — — Map (db m181898) HM
On Willow Springs Road, 0.3 miles south of State Highway 91, on the left when traveling south.
On September 29, 1875, Richard McClimans filed a timber claim on this site under the provisions of the Timber Culture Act of 1873. The original act, sponsored by Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock of Nebraska, enabled homesteaders to acquire up to a . . . — — Map (db m181986) HM
On H Street, 0.2 miles east of 13th Avenue (State Highway 96), on the left when traveling east.
Burwell began as a post office named The Forks in 1875. The town was incorporated as a village and changed its name to Burwell in 1884. Three years later, the newly-incorporated Lincoln & Black Hills Railroad laid track from Central City to . . . — — Map (db m179191) HM
Near Dam Road (State Highway 96) 7 miles north of State Highway 91, on the left when traveling north.
The source of the Calamus River is spring-fed Moon Lake, 60 miles northwest of here. The river was named after a common marsh plant eaten by muskrats. Archeological evidence indicates that prehistoric Indians camped in the valley as early as 3,000 . . . — — Map (db m189344) HM
On State Highway 91/11, 0.3 miles east of Windy Hill Road, on the right when traveling east.
One of the worst storms in Nebraska history struck without warning on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873. Rain began to fall in the afternoon and evening, later changing to snow. By Monday morning heavy, wet snow, driven before howling northwesterly . . . — — Map (db m181900) HM
Near Dam Road (State Highway 96) 7 miles north of State Highway 91, on the left when traveling north.
The North Loup Project was authorized as a multi-purpose flood control and irrigation project by the Flood Control Act of 1944. The Twin Loups Reclamation District, organized in January 1954, and The Twin Loups Irrigation District, organized in . . . — — Map (db m189376) HM
On State Highway 91/11, 0.3 miles east of Windy Hill Road, on the right when traveling east.
In 1872-73 white settlers were moving into the North Loup Valley. Their presence sparked occasional conflicts with Lakota Sioux wandering down from the north to hunt or raid the Pawnee Reservation near Genoa. On January 18, 1874, Sioux passing . . . — — Map (db m181899) HM
