Burlington and Missouri River Railroad locomotive (1886)

The first train to arrive in Broken Bow, Nebraska was this Burlington and Missouri River Railroad train on August 26, 1886.
Identifier: sdbutcherspionee00butc
Title: S.D. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Broken Bow, Neb. : [Merchants Pub. Co.]
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBKASKA. 203 her Company; W. H. Cliiie, jj^eneral merchandise; W. J. Woods, fnrnitnrc;Wilde & Squires, hardware; S. B. Frost, restaurant; S. A. Barstow, contractorand builder; Edwards & Emil. hlacksniiths and wagon makers; C. A. Thum,clothing-; J. H. Inman, agent for the Lincoln Townsite Company. Th( rail-road addition was surveyed and put on the market and a numb(M of newbuildings erected or commenced on the new addition, including a number ofresidences as A\ell as business buildings. On the old townsite was built the
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First Train into Broken Bow, Aug. -Iti, l»g6. Pacific hotel and (Jraham Bros, store, which has since become the propertyof Mrs. T E. Wheeler, and is known as the Grand Central hotel, one of thebest equipped and best conducted hostelries in central Nebraska. The B &M. railroad let no time go to waste after the survey was made, and on August26, 1886, the road was completed to Broken Bow and the first locomotivemade its appearance in Custer countys rapidly growing cai)ital. C. E. Wilkin- 204 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY son of Lincoln was the first station agent and telegraph operator, and after-wards served as mayor of the city. In the latter part of this year O. P.Perley, a capitalist of Maine, located here and invested a large sum of moneyin the Custer County Bank. On the 15th of February, 1886, it was organizedas the First National Bank, with S. H. Burnham, president; L. H. Jewett,cashier, and O. P. Perley, assistant cashier. The following year the CentralNebraska Bank was e