the incorporation
of
table rock
According to a March 1953 article, by Donald Danker, in the magazine of the Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska Territory towns could be incorporated by operation of law by virtua of an 1857 statute if published certain notices in the newspaper, and Table Rock did. Perhaps it helped that one of the earlier "founders," Robert Furnas (of the Table Rock Town Company), was the editor of the new and influential Brownville Advertiser newspaper.
There was no paperwork, apparently, towns were just deemed incorporated. This makes sense in a time when Nebraska Territory was just getting settled and towns were springing up everywhere. How could the brand new Territorial government keep up with the incorporations if they did it one by one!
According to the 1880 Andreas history, the incorporation by this means happened in 1858. An edition of the Table Rock Argus in the 1940s reported that it was on July 20, 1858. (No source was cited.)
Table Rock was established about 1856- the Table Rock town company partially laid out the town then; there was a mill and a place called Table Rock then, and to it came the first families of the Nebraska Settlement Company in 1857.
There was no paperwork, apparently, towns were just deemed incorporated. This makes sense in a time when Nebraska Territory was just getting settled and towns were springing up everywhere. How could the brand new Territorial government keep up with the incorporations if they did it one by one!
According to the 1880 Andreas history, the incorporation by this means happened in 1858. An edition of the Table Rock Argus in the 1940s reported that it was on July 20, 1858. (No source was cited.)
Table Rock was established about 1856- the Table Rock town company partially laid out the town then; there was a mill and a place called Table Rock then, and to it came the first families of the Nebraska Settlement Company in 1857.
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The incorporation of Table Rock was affirmed by a Nebraska statute in 1860.
