Nebraska News

1869: Brevet Maj. Gen. Christopher Columbus Agur was named commander of the Army's Department of the Platte.

Arbor Manor was home to food, entertainment before peacocks and other pets.

1869: Lincoln completed incorporation.

1869: Duncan, then called Jackson, was established as a flag station on the Union Pacific Railroad between Columbus and Silver Creek.

Scribner was home to a hotel that was ahead of its time.

1869: Conflicts were arising in western Nebraska between cattlemen, whose herds fed on free pastures, and the Grangers, who were settling and fencing small farms.

1869: A petition asking for formal incorporation of the town of Lincoln was signed by a sufficient number of citizens to make it valid, starting the process of incorporation.