On Jewett Avenue (State Highway 2) just east of Pearl Street, on the right when traveling east.
In 1885 surveyors designated a route through the Sand Hills for a Burlington Railroad branch line. The rails reached this point on the Blaine Thomas county line in 1887, and a town was laid out. It was named Halsey after Halsey E. Yates, the son of . . . — — Map (db m178925) HM
On Walnut Street just north of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
On May 10, 1891, eight-year-old Matilda (Tillie) Haumann and her four-year-old sister, Anna Henrietta (Retta), became lost in the Sandhills while returning home from visiting their sister who was helping a neighbor. Their parents, Carl and . . . — — Map (db m178914) HM
On Mercure Loop (State Highway 2) at U.S. 83 on Mercure Loop.
You are near the center of one of the world’s greatest cattle producing areas — some 13 million acres of deep sands with a high water-table exposed in numerous lakes. This great sea of sand was deposited by winds of a desert climate that ended . . . — — Map (db m180889) HM
On Mercure Loop (State Highway 2) at U.S. 83 on Mercure Loop.
The Sandhills, Nebraska’s most unique physiographic feature, covers about one-fourth of the state. The sandy soil acts like a giant sponge, soaking up rain and forming a vast underground reservoir. Hundreds of permanent lakes are found here. . . . — — Map (db m180875) HM
