Precinct "K" (Township 10 North, Range 2 East)
Seward County, Nebraska
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History of "K" in History of Seward County, Nebraska by W. W. Cox, 1888The following article is from W. W. Cox, History of Seward County, Nebraska, 1888, Chapter VI, page 123:
[Surnames: ALDRICH, ALLISON, JENSEN, MADSON, OGLESBY, TUNECLIFF, WILLIAMS, WINDSOR]
"K" PRECINCT.
This beautiful township has 130 farms, 672 population, six miles of railroad, and one station (Goehner). It has five school-houses, with the same number of schools, all in a prosperous condition.This precinct is nearly all level land, and it has many of our most beautiful and valuable farms. There is but very little running water within its borders.
Goehner, its station, was platted in the fall of 1887, upon the completion of the railroad, and now it contains several business houses and several dwellings, including a depot, elevator, two general stores, two grocery stores, one hardware, and one drug store.
Abram Windsor built the first house in the precinct, in the spring of 1869. Wm., George, and Alfred Livesey made settlement the following summer. L. Allison, Martin and Edward Jensen, S. S. H. Williams, Martin Madson, C. Tunecliff, and Peter Oglesby made settlement in 1870; also some others whose names we have failed to obtain.
The progress of "K" precinct has been rapid, both in settlement and improvement. There are many very fine farm houses and good substantial barns; many excellent orchards, and over a hundred fine groves of planted timber.
This precinct can boast of the only regular cheese dairy in the county. Jerome Aldrich, near Goehner, has in successful operation a cheese dairy, in which he made and sold forty thousand pounds of excellent cheese during 1887, and he proposes to enlarge the capacity to 140,000 pounds in the near future. Mr. Aldrich finds a ready sale for his product, which is accounted number one among the dealers.
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