fun things to look at

Here are some updates to the site.  This is NOT a list of ALL additions, just a few notes. Graze the site, there's always something new. 

THIS PAGE IS supplemented from time to time

editor's choice from the picture collection

watering, coaling, and fixing steam locomotives

gone fishing

cars, trucks, and indian motorcycles

hats!

country schools still standing within a day trip of table rock

This growing compendium of photographs covers country schools in Pawnee, Richardson, Nemaha, Johnson, and Otoe Counties in southeast Nebraska and Nemaha County, Kansas.  Schools are added as they are found.  

at the cemeteries, obituaries & other things

CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN THE TABLE ROCK CEMETeRY
Ben & Elizabeth Ball, first-wave pioneers

STORY TELLER LARRY LAYDEN REMEMBERS GROWING UP IN TABLE ROCK, WORKING ON THE RAILROAD 

OTHER FUN THINGS POSTED

added in june 2017 - the memorial day 2017 dedication of the civil war tombstone of william mcneal with military honors

added in june 2017 - the babies delivered by dr. mccrea

added in june 2017 - more about veterans 

lawrence wilcox, killed in action in the korean war

clarence morton, died in a japanese prisoner of war camp

ronald boston, died as a japanese prisoner of war

added in June 2017 - the 25th infantry bicycle corps come through table rock in 1897

added in june 2017 -- a gold star list for all wars

added in june 2017- three Veterans who had disappeared into history are identified and honored: William McNeal JIM MCCURRY, and Herman Brauer

Added in 1/17 to 5/17 -- more articles about people worth remembering 

Charlie McCourtney - Larger than Life
Joseph Hayek, Veteran of the Indian Wars
Mae & Gardy Anderson - In the Circuis
The Longwell Family Tragedy -- Lost in A Hurricane

added 10/15/16 - the gentle gender, stories of some of the pioneer women of table rock (more added from time to time)

added 7/8/16 - henry merwin, a civil war veteran with a mangled hand, comes to table rock in 1882.

added june 2016 - renovation of the argus museum

added 4/3/16 - an 1859 newspaper story about a trip from brownville to table rock; it contains the earliest found first person account of what the table rock looked like

added 3/17/16 - table rock school site closing for good at end of this school year

added 1/18/16 - horses, mules, and a donkey, a collection of lots of pictures! 

added 1/16/16 - streetS, roads, & sidewalks. aN ORDINANCE REQUIRING ROAD TAX TO BE PAID WITH LABOR, A MARSHAL'S NOTICE, "i DON'T WANT TO ARREST ANYBODY BUT RIDING BICYCLES ON THE SIDEWALK MUST CEASE!", WHAT HAPPENED WHEN PETER STEVENS TRIED TO REPAIR A BOARD SIDEWALK, ENVISIONING A HARD-SURFACED HIGHWAY ALL THE WAY TO LINCOLN, AND MORE

added 1/14/16 - the telephone, up to speed by 1899, lots of stuff from the exchange to early telephone books to pictures & more

added 12/24/15 - the farm accounts of peter gold, from 1883 to 1891.  what did eggs sell for, how much did he have to pay for coffee?  it's all here.

added 12/9/15 - what do refrigerators, tree houses, the ideal theater, and the millstone in the park have in common? charles harlow.

Added 12/8/15 - table rock on the map
maps from 1870 to today

added 12/8/15 - the viaduct.  a 1941 picture sparks discussion about when it was built, where the dirt came from to build it, and where the road used to run before it.

Added 11/20/15 - memoriES OF THE OLD-FASHIONED SODA FOUNTAIN 

added 11/14/15 - in 1921, a hold up and chase right out of a dime novel

added 11/14/15 - Cast up by the sea, an itinerant artist creates a sculpture in the sand at the taylor branch bridge

added 9/24/15 - THE EARLY BEGINNING OF a COLLECTION OF BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS AND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

added beginning 9/15/15 -- People WORTH REMEMBERING BY. A random selection, a collection in progress

added 8/16/15 - the civil war monument in the northeast corner of the table rock cemetery

added 8/5/15 -- the lynching of horse thieves.  a lost final installment to a gripping account written in 1893 has been found and added. 

added 8/4/15, boating -- on horse shoe lake and on the nemaha river





added 7/27/15, A COLLECTION OF information about accidents of all sorts -- runaway teams, train wrecks, car accidents, fires, tractors, etc.


added 7/22/15, the lincoln hotel

added 7/7/15: PHOTOS IMPLEMENTING THE convention of families spaced out in front of their homes, showing off their homes.

added 6/18/15: the old mill
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