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Nebraska County Countdown 10: Platte County

Explore the Platte Valley, home of great football players like Blahak, Saalfeld, Schlesinger, and Brock

I know many of you have enjoyed the courthouse pictures we’ve used in this series. I want to take a moment to note that most of them came from Wikimedia Commons. One user, Ammodramus, has taken time to photograph county courthouses, and other historic sites, in Nebraska. Not only that, but he/she released all their photos to the public domain. That generosity deserves a shout out and since this is my last article of the county series, I wanted to be sure to do that.

Welcome to Platte County, home to 32,237 Nebraskans. The county was formed in 1855 and named after the mighty Platte River. The county seat is Columbus (so named after Columbus, Ohio) and is located where the Platte and Loup Rivers come together. The other city is Humphrey. Villages include: Cornlea, Creston, Duncan, Lindsay, Monroe, Platte Center, and Tarnov. Census-designated and unincorporated communities include: Lakeview, Oconee, Rosenburg, Tracy Valley, and Saint Bernard.

The town of Humphrey is where Ranchdude and I procured most of the flooring for our house. The Catholic church in town built a new school and auctioned off everything (and I mean everything) from the old building right down to the flooring. It was a lot of hard work, sweat, and splinters, but we salvaged about 2000 square feet of maple floor. We have 110 year old floors in our 15 year old house.

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