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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KEARNEY , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Buffalo county, See also:Nebraska, U.S.A., about 130 M. W. of See also:Lincoln. Pop. (1890), 5074; (1900), 5634 (65o See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910), 6202. It is on the See also:main overland See also:line of the See also:Union Pacific, and on a See also:branch of the See also:Burlington & See also:Missouri See also:River railroad. The city is situated in the broad, See also:flat bottom-lands a See also:short distance N. of the See also:Platte River. See also:Lake Kearney, in the city, has an See also:area of 40 acres. The surrounding region is See also:rich farming See also:land, devoted especially to the growing of See also:alfalfa and See also:Indian See also:corn. At Kearney are a See also:State See also:Industrial School for boys, a State Normal School, the Kearney Military See also:Academy, and a See also:Carnegie library. See also:Good See also:water-See also:power is provided by a See also:canal from the Platte River about 17 M. above Kearney, and the city's manufactures include foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products, See also:flour and bricks. Kearney Junction, as Kearney was called from 1872 to 1875, was settled a See also:year before the two See also:railways actually formed their junction here or the city was platted. Kearney became a See also:town in 1873, a city of the second class and the county seat in 1874, and a city of the first class in 1901.

It is to be distinguished from an older and once famous See also:

prairie city, popularly known as " Dobey Town " (i.e. See also:Adobe), founded in the See also:early 'fifties on the edge of the See also:reservation of old Fort Kearney (removed in 1848 from Nebraska City), in Kearney county, on the S. See also:shore of the Platte about 6 m. S.E. of the See also:present Kearney; here in 1861 the See also:post See also:office of Kearney City was established. In the days of the prairie freighting caravans Dobey Town was one of the most important towns between See also:Independence, Missouri, and the Pacific See also:coast, and it had a rough, See also:wild, picturesque See also:history; but it lost its immense freighting interests after the Union Pacific had been extended through it in 1866. The site of Dobey Town, together with the Fort, was abandoned in 1871. Fort Kearney and the city too were named in See also:honour of See also:General See also:Stephen W.

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