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See also:GRAND See also:ISLAND , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall county, See also:Nebraska, U.S.A., on the See also:Platte See also:river, about 154 in. W. by S. of See also:Omaha. Pop. (190o) 7554 (1339 See also:foreign-See also:born); (19ro) 10,326. It is served by the See also:Union Pacific, the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, and the St See also:Joseph & Grand Island See also:railways, being the western See also:terminus of the last-named See also:line and a See also:southern terminus of a See also:branch of the Union Pacific. The city is situated on a slope skirting the broad, level bottom-lands of the Platte river, in the midst of a fertile farming region. Grand Island See also:College (Baptist; co-educational) was established in 1892 and the Grand Island Business and Normal College in 1890; and the city is the seat of a See also:state Sailors' and Soldiers' See also:Home, established in 1888. Grand Island has a large wholesale See also:trade in groceries, fruits, &c.; is an important See also:horse-See also:market, and has large stock-yards. There are shops of the Union Pacific in the city, and among its manufactures are See also:beet-See also:sugar—Grand Island is in one of the See also:principal beet-sugar-growing districts of the state—brooms, See also:wire fences, See also:confectionery and canned See also:corn. The most important See also:industry of the county is the raising and feeding of See also:sheep and neat See also:cattle. A " Grand Island " was founded in 1857, and was named from a large island (nearly 50 M. See also:long) in the Platte opposite its site; but the See also:present city was laid out by the Union Pacific in 1866. It was chartered as a city in 1873.
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