The great immigrant roads to the West which followed the Platte River brought the first settlers to this area. Beginning in the late 1850’s, these frontiersmen operated stage stations, road ranches, and trading posts. An August attack upon a wagon . . . — — Map (db m251226) HM
Dedicated to those daring pioneers, heralds of modern communication, transportation, and civilization by Phelps County, November 8, 1931 — — Map (db m294427) 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
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
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
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
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