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History. Arthur County was established in 1913 from the western part of McPherson County following an effort to move the McPherson County seat from Tryon to the more centrally located Flats: rather than lose the county seat, the residents of Tryon, Nebraska agreed to have the county divided approximately in half, according to boundaries for sandhills counties originally proposed in 1887.
Arthur was founded in 1913 to be the seat of Arthur County, then just organizing. [5] The town and county were both named for President Chester A. Arthur. [6] Arthur was incorporated as a village in 1944. [5] The first county office was a covered wagon, with a one-room courthouse being built in 1915. A year before that, in the Spring, a general ...
Appearance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More than 1,100 properties and districts in Nebraska are on the National Register of Historic Places. Of these, 20 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in 90 of the state's 93 counties . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted June 28, 2024.
January 10, 1990. The First Arthur County Courthouse and Jail, was perhaps the smallest court house in the United States, and serves now as a museum. [2] Located at Marshall St. between Fir and Elm Sts. in Arthur, Nebraska, the 26-by-28-foot (7.9 m × 8.5 m) courthouse building was built in 1914, and the jail was built in 1915, as the first ...
Loup (1855-1856) Formed from Burt and Un-Organized and then dissolved Madison, Monroe and Platte Counties. Jones (1856-1866) Formed from unorganized territory and dissolved into Jefferson County. Grant, Harrison, Jackson, Lynn, Monroe and Taylor counties listed in 1870 - see map. West (1860-1862) Formed from unorganized territory and dissolved ...
The county itself was created by the Nebraska legislature in its 1912-13 session, and the townsite of Arthur was designated the county seat in 1913. By the 1920 census, the county had a population of 1412, compared to an 1890 population of 91 for what is now Logan and Arthur counties.
Buildings and structures in Arthur County, Nebraska (1 C, 2 P) G. Geography of Arthur County, Nebraska (1 C) T. Transportation in Arthur County, Nebraska (3 P)
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Arthur County, Nebraska" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .