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- Sep 6, 2026
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Jim McKee: You could bank on Brownville (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1854, with the creation of the Nebraska Territory, Richard Brown, originally from Tennessee but at that point living in Missouri, crossed the Missouri River into Nebraska. The area, first known as Forney and later Nemaha County, looked like the perfect place for him to establish a town. Settlers began to cross from Missouri and Iowa, many hoping to obtain land, quickly sell it to newcomers and move on. Because farming and trade required fast means of capital transfer, some sort
Jim McKee: Charles W. McDonald and perhaps North Platte's oldest commercial building (opens the original)
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This column originally ran in the May 24, 2015 edition of the Journal Star. Historian Jim McKee, who still writes with a fountain pen, invites comments or questions. Write to him in care of the Journal Star or at jim@leebooksellers.com. Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter. Hereâs how a 25th-anniversary 9/11 project uncovered a remarkable story. A toddlerâs fall, a missed alarm and an available aisle seat set Craig Ostroff on a different course on Sept. 11, 2001. Nebraska State Audito
Jim McKee: The Nebraska county at the center of everything (opens the original)
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At what is nearly the geographic center of Nebraska is a county known nationally for popcorn, the birthplace of the first woman airmail pilot, the schoolchildrenâs blizzard of 1888 and the interesting footnote saying that â0.0%" of its residents live in urban areas. Historian Jim McKee, who still writes with a fountain pen, invites comments or questions. Write to him in care of the Journal Star or at jim@leebooksellers.com. Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter. Hereâs how a 25th-ann
Jim McKee: A small county with a lot of history (opens the original)
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Not quite Nebraskaâs most southwest county, Hitchcock County, on the Kansas border, carries the license plate prefix of 67, meaning in 1922, it was number 67 of 93 in total automobile registrations. Today it is in a virtual tie with Frontier County for number 70. Hitchcock County is also one of only a couple that has a town in two counties and was the site of perhaps the last battle between Native tribes, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Historian Jim McKee, who sti
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