histories

Timeline of important events

Incorporation of Table Rock

Table Rock was incorporated on January 4, 1860.  

Oral Histories

narrative histories

National Historic Register applications

1878, A Guide To Southeastern Nebraska

1882, History of Table Rock by Andreas

1890 Nebraska Gazetteer

1893, about 1864 lynching of horse thieves

1900, about 1864 lynching of horse thieves

1900, Pioneer's recollection of early life here

1900, Article about John Gere, Killed by Indians

2015 Newsletter article about John Gere

The newsletter article has a fuller story about John Gere, based on multiple sources. (The 1900 article sets forth a single pioneer's recollections.)

1912 Methodist Church History

1914, Brickyards and the town

This wonderful history is incorporated in a proposal to the State of Nebraska that it take over the two Table Rock brickyards as an income producer, to be manned by convict labor.  The proposal was reprinted in three installments and includes not only background about the brickyards but Table Rock as well.

1931, Fannie Giddings Norris's memories at age 92

1932, The Picture Rocks of Table Rock

1933, The Original Table Rock by Elsie Pepoon Sutton

1939, History of Bunker Hill

1957, History of Pleasant Valley Country School

This history was published in the Argus in many installments. It is a history of the District 32 (Pleasant Valley) country school, but much more, as it sets the Pleasant Valley story in the the context of local history. 

1959, Table Rock 1858 - 1959, by Ellen Fellers

1966, History of the Post Office

1969, History of the Christian Church