Red Cloud (Nebraska)

Webster County

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Red Cloud (Nebraska ) is a city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat ( seat of the circle) of Webster County ( Nebraska). The small town has among other features, a public library, a park with outdoor swimming pool, a golf course and an airfield.

Geography

The place is located in the south of the state of Nebraska, near the border with the neighboring state of Kansas on the north bank of the Republican River at the intersection of running from north to south, the highway U.S. Highway 281 and extending from east to west U.S. Highway 136

History

The town was founded in the year 1870/1871 by a group of settlers to the later Governor of Nebraska Silas Garber and surrounded with palisades for protection against Indians. He was named to honor of that neighborhood Indian chief Red Cloud. The late 1870s, he was tapped by the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, which the still sparsely populated area a slightly stronger influx of settlers, among others procured from Germany. In 1879, many of the young building site ( "Great Storm" ) were badly damaged by a violent hurricane.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Silas Garber, 3rd Governor of Nebraska
  • William C. Norris, computer pioneer
  • Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize winner, immortalized the place in their works
  • William A. McKeighan, U.S. Rep.
  • Place in Nebraska
  • Location in North America
  • Webster County ( Nebraska)
  • County Seat in Nebraska
County (United States) Webster County (Nebraska) Federal Information Processing Standards U.S. Route 136 William Norris (CEO)
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