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grain being especially large. In 'goo Nebraska City ranked third among the manufacturing cities of the state, the manufactures including canned fruits and vegetables, packed pork, See also:

FLOUR

flour, oatmeal, hominy, grits, See also:

MEAL

meal, See also:

STARCH

starch, See also:

cider-See also:

VINEGAR

vinegar, agricultural implements, windmills, paving bricks, See also:

concrete, See also:

SEWER

sewer See also:

PIPE

pipe, See also:

BEER

beer, over-alls and shirts. It is one of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest settlements of the state. The first " old Fort See also:

KEARNEY

Kearney " was established on the site of Nebraska City in 1847, but was abandoned in 1848, and the fort was re-established farther W. on the See also:

PLATTE (so named, from the• French, because of its shallowness), or NEBRASKA

Platte Iver (see KEARNEY). Otoe county was organized in 1855, and the See also:

ORIGINAL

original Nebraska City was incorporated and made the county-seat in the same See also:

YEAR

year. This city, together with Kearney City, incorporated in 1855—adjacent to the first " old " Fort Kearney—and See also:

South Nebraska City, were consolidated by the legislature into the See also:

PRESENT

present Nebraska City in 1858.

(Twelve other city " additions " and so-called " towns," all within or closely adjacent to the present city, were in existence in 1857.) Nebraska City was for some years the largest city of the state. In 1858 it became the headquarters of a See also:

GREAT

great freighting-See also:

FIRM

firm that distributed supplies for the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

government among the See also:

army posts between the Missouri river and the Rocky Mountains; in seven months in 1859 this one firm employed 602 men, used 517 wagons, 5682 oxen, and 75 mules, and shipped 2,782,258 lb. of See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight. Nebraska City was the initial point of several roads, parts at one See also:

time or another of the" See also:

OREGON

Oregon," " Old See also:

California," and " Great See also:

Salt See also:

Lake " trails. (See NEBRASKA (State): See also:

HISTORY

History.) Nebraska City became a city of the second class in 1871 and a city of the first class in 1901.

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