Entries Containing All of the Phrases «thomas county» AND «nebraska»

By Cosmos Mariner, August 5, 2021

Haumann Sisters Sculpture

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1 ► Nebraska, Thomas County, Thedford — 517 — The Haumann Sisters: Lost in the Sandhills —

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

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2 ► Nebraska, Thomas County, Halsey — 497 — Village of Halsey —

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

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3 ► Nebraska, Thomas County, Thedford — The Nebraska Sandhills —

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

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