table rock's TIME LINE
This page is always under construction. Often new facts are learned but the updating of the time line is overlooked. For example, it was originally thought that the old Legion Hall building was constructed in 1894, based on information in an application for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, but then a newspaper article was found saying that the building was being constructed -- on a basement facility that had been used as a lodge hall by the Woodmen of the World. If you see something that conflicts with information elsewhere on this website, please speak up & let us know. Email [email protected].
Photo 6730, by pilot Bruce Bernadt, on September 8, 2018 (Fair day).
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How did all of this come to be? Baby steps, then by leaps and bounds, then still forging ahead with determination. Here are some events in our history that have made us what we are today. Have an idea for something to add? Email us at [email protected], or post it on our Facebook group page.
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1854 - FIRST SETTLER IN TABLE ROCK AREA ARRIVES, JAMES HINTON; ERECTS SMALL FRAME HOUSE, MILL BUILT ON SITE BEFORE LONG
1854 - FIRST COUNTIES ESTABLISHED, TEMPORARY COUNTY OF RICHARDSON COUNTY EXTENDS 60 MILES FROM THE MISSOURI
1855 - PAWNEE COUNTY ESTABLISHED, WESTERN PART OF TEMPORARY RICHARDSON COUNTY
1855 - TABLE ROCK TOWN COMPANY ARRIVES, BEGINS SURVEYING; three men comprise the company, iNCLUDING FUTURE GOVERNOR robert FURNAS. they "partially lay out" the town.
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A later history said: The Indian trail forded the North Fork of the Nemaha about two miles north of town. The wagon trail ran from the northeast to the southwest. The "remarkable stones" were on a bluff on the east side of the river. They were of standstone, 18 to 20 feet high, and "covered with unintelligible hieroglyphics." One was shaped like a table, nearly high enough to stand under.
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1855 - FIRST CHILD BORN IN PAWNEE COUNTY, TO ROBERT & mary TURNER, WHOSE CABIN (BUILT IN 1854) WAS LATER MOVED TO TABLE ROCK AND BECAME A MUSEUM
The cabin in 2016
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The Turners in later life
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1856 - C. W. GIDDINGS CHECKS OUT SOUTHERN NEBRASKA/NORTHERN KANSAS, LIKES THE TABLE ROCK AREA BEST, AND RETURNS TO PENNSYLVANIA TO HELP FORM THE NEBRASKA SETTLEMENT COMPANY. |
C. W. Giddings in 1858, ambrotype donated by Betty Ann Wilkins, Photo 3158
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1856 - FIRST ELECTION FOR PAWNEE COUNTY SEAT. TWO TABLE ROCK SITES PROPOSED, THE "TOWN" SITE, AND A SITE ON THE HILL JUST EAST OF THE RIVER, AND A THIRD SITE ON TURKEY CREEK. NONE OF THE THREE SECURED A MAJORITY VOTE, with "Table Rock City" only one vote shy of getting the necessary votes. IN A SECOND ELECTION, THE TURKEY CREEK SITE WON OUT. PAWNEE CITY DEVELOPED THERE.
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August 30, 1856 Nebraska Advertiser (Brownville)
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1856 - DECEMBER. FIRST POSTMASTER APPOINTED.
1857 - NEBRASKA SETTLEMENT COMPANY PURCHASES INTERESTS OF TABLE ROCK TOWN COMPANY FOR A REPORTED $1,500, AND FIRST FAMILIES WITH THE NSC ARRIVE.
1857 - FIRST SCHOOL CLASSES TAUGHT. (AT LEAST ONE HISTORY GIVES 1856 AS THE FIRST YEAR THAT SCHOOL CLASSES WERE TAUGHT, BY LYDIA GRIFFING IN HER LOG CABIN. HOWEVER, THE 1882 ANDREAS HISTORY GIVES 1857 AS THE DATE OF ARRIVAL OF THE GRIFFINGS.
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C. H. Norris He would have been 21 in 1857.
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1857/1858 - Robert v. Muir prepares a plat of table rock in 1857, recorded at the courthouse in 1858. platt includes the town square and the table rock cemetery.
1858 Plat from the courthouse records
1858 - table rock is incorporated
1858 - TABLE ROCK LUMBER MILL ADVERTISES IN BROWNVILLE NEWSPAPER
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April 1, 1858 Nebraska Advertiser (Brownville) has an ad for a lumber mill in Table Rock.
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1858 - table rock incorporated
According to the memoirs of Rev. C. W. Giddings, the founder of Table Rock, Nebraska Territory towns could be incorporated by operation of law in 1857 if published certain notices in the newspaper, and Table Rock did. Perhaps it helped that one of the earlier "founders," 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! However, according to the 1880 Andreas history, this did not happen until 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 1855-- 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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July 19, 1945 Argus
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1859 - MILL OPERATED BY MR. FLEMING AT TABLE ROCK NOTED IN PIONEER RECOLLECTION
1859 - a traveler describes "the" table rock
In an article about a trip to Table Rock, the traveler, identified only by his initials, describes the mill, the town, and "the" Table Rock. This is article is extremely valuable historically, because it seems to be the only contemporaneous account of what the actual Table Rock looked like. It was gone within about a decade. Many people described talked about the Table Rock, but they were referring to another formation, usually the Mushroom Rock, which was dynamited after it became unstable due to a lightning hit.
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Whatever happened to "the" Table Rock? Elsie Pepoon Sutton interviewed who had seen it for themselves and who were still alive in the early 1930s. By that time, the original rock was long gone but no one knew when or why or how.
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1861 - 1ST POST OFFICE, BELIEVED TO BE AT C. H. NORRIS STORE
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C. H. Norris Store shared on Ancestry by William Griffing with date of circa 1860, The Table Rock Historical Society has a print as well, but it is very faded.
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1861 - MRs. adam CLAYTON, THE MILLER'S WIFE, KILLED AT MILL; DRESS CAUGHT IN A MILLSTONE
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(Brownville) Nebraska Advertiser, July 25, 1861
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1862 - FIRST SCHOOL BUILDING IN TOWN, A ONE-ROOM STONE BUILDING JUST EAST OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SQUARE |
Stonemason Peter Foale, an immigrant from England, helped build the first school building. Here he is with his wife Susan and presumably their first born. Thanks to Historical Society member Kim Vrtiska for sharing this family photo.
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1865 - EXPRESS ROUTE RAN THROUGH TABLE ROCKIra Draper's obituary refers to the "pony express" but it had be long gone when he rode in 1865. But that does not mean that there was not an express rider who carried the mail. The Pony Express was forced out of business by the transcontinental telegraphy. In 1865, there was no telegraph across southeast Nebraska. That came with the railroad in 1871. In any event, the obituary recites:
Ira would start early in the morning from Falls City.....From Humboldt, the trail ran across the hills to Table Rock and then on.... |
April 28, 1943 obituary cites route of Pony Express
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1869 - C. H. Norris store established
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Chauncey H. Norris went into business in Table Rock before the Civil War, married Fannie Giddings (daughter of the town's founder), fought in the Civil War, served as an Indian agent, then returned to Table Rock for good. He set up his first store in 1869. He later moved it to Lower Town (the Railroad Addition) after businesses moved there to be near the depot, and then moved back up town when the businesses did so to avoid troublesome flooding.
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November 15, 1929 Humboldt Standard, p. 1
Norris Store in 1870, shared by Wm. Griffing
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1870 - john n. gere killed by indians when homesteading in kansas. he WAS THE FIRST CIVIL WAR VETERAN BURIED IN THE TABLE ROCK CEMETERY, AND THE G.A.R. POST WAS NAMED AFTER HIM.A research article in the July 2015 newsletter of the Table Rock Historical Society provides many details about John and his young wife Lydia, including what is known about the circumstances of his sad and untimely death.
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John's pregnant young wife Lydia was left to raise a toddler and a baby without their father. She eventually married a Mr. Holmes, who was the civil engineer for the Wymore railroad extension project. She lived much of the end of her life in Hawaii. Here she is at an older age. Thank you to the Helen Norris family for sharing this family. photo. (Lydia was a sister to Fannie Giddings Norris, and both girls were the daughters of C. W. and Clarissa Giddings.)
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1871 - FIRST DEPOT BUILT, FIRST TRAIN ARRIVES IN TABLE ROCK (NOVEMBER 10) |
The first depot, built in 1871, photo taken in 1887. Nick Goodenkauf is the tall man in the foreground, C. W. Chambers (the depot agent) is the man at the right. The man at left is identified by Charlie McCourtney as "Riley" and is believed to be Edward Riley, who was a section foreman at the time. Photo 1953.
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1871 - LINDSLEY HOUSE BUILT by Dr. J. W. Lindsley (ABANDONED STONE HOUSE WEST OF SQUARE) |
The aging Lindsley House in happier times
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1872 - the Odd fellows lodge organized
The seven charter members included three whose presence in our local history has been iconic: C. H. Norris, R. P. Jennings, M. H. Marble, and Dr. J. W. Lindsley, who built the Lindsley House Hotel, and three others whose significance has been lost to time—Horace Niles, W. B. Bull, and James O. Tuttle.
1873 - FIRST METHODIST CHURCH BUILT, IN LOWER TOWN (DATE APPROXIMATE, IS DATE OF MORTGAGE LIEN ON THE PROPERTY
1873 - pleasant valley country school -- the rock school -- built in old school district 32.
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The school closed in 1957, consolidated into the town school, District 33. About 2013, a group of alumni formed the Rock School Foundation, raised money, and restored the school as they remembered it. The school was dedicated in October 2017.
Students at Pleasant Valley one year. In the back are Dorothy Hunzeker and Rudy Fritch, Jr., who later married and in about 2015 celebrated their 50th anniversary. In the front: Richard Blecha, Sylvia Steiner, George Tomek, Joann Kalina, and Milan Tomek. Dorothy, Rudy, Jr., and George and Milan Tomek are active in the rock school activities. George did much of the actual work in restoring the school. Richard’s son Howard is president of the foundation. They all live in Table Rock. Sylvia lives in Texas, and has written a small book about the earliest pioneers along the Nemaha River. Joann has passed away; it is she who painted the mural on the side of the Argus Museum in 1976.
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In 2017
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1874 - maple grove country school (ALSO KNOWN AS THE MUMFORD SCHOOL) is built IN SCHOOL DISTRICT 17, WEST OF TABLE ROCK. IT WOULD BE MOVED INTO TABLE ROCK & opened AS A MUSEUM WHEN IT WAS 92 YEARS OLD (1966).Source: 1917 student history of Maple Grove; many of the school districts produced such a history as part of a project that year. The history is in the archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society.
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Maple Grove in 1906. The current vestibule was added on at some point.
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1874 - SECOND SCHOOL BUILDING IN TOWN. TWO-ROOM FRAME BUILDING ON SITE OF STONE SCHOOl
1877 - ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILT
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St. John's in 2014. It has been a museum of the Table Rock Historical Society since 1970.
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1880 - the table rock cemetery association formed.
Southwest quarter of the cemetery, Memorial Day 2015
1881 - FIRST TRAIN ON THE WYMORE EXTENSION OF THE REPUBLICAN VALLEY RAILROAD, I.E., THE "WYMORE LINE"
1881 - first 2 brick commercial buildings built
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The 1st building was the Odd Fellows building at the southwest corner of the Square; that building burned in 1900. The second building was the Richardson building, built later that same year; in the 1900s it was successively owned by Frank Sochor, Joe Sochor, and Harry Griebling. The source of this information is a January 3, 1901 article in the Argus about a fire that destroyed the Odd Fellows Building (which was soon replaced).
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1882 - FIRST BANK IN TABLE ROCK ESTABLISHED
1882 - TABLE ROCK ARGUS NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED
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Here's the editorial box from the June 17, 1882 edition, the earliest known surviving edition.
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1882 - PRESENT METHODIST CHURCH BUILT |
Undated photo of congregation of the church, some time prior to the 1912 remodeling, which added a wing on this west side of the church.
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1884 - school building moved to site of present school & enlarged
From dedication booklet for 1902 school
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The school in 1884.
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1885 - STATE BANK OF TABLE ROCK FOUNDED
1888 - first high school graduation (2 students)
1890 - CHRISTIAN CHURCH BUILT
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The Christian Church, built in 1890. This photo is undated.
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1891 - samuel barnard's table rock nursery sets out cedar & catalpa trees at the table rock cemetery. In 2016, the trees turned 125 years old. |
In 2015 - Cedar trees lining the central east-west road. Cedars surround the perimeter and also line the north-south central road.
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1892 - STATE BANK OF TABLE ROCK dedicated
From “Hassler’s – History of Pawnee County 1896.”
“The first bank in this town was started by W. M. Forbes and Wheelock. On the second day of November 1885, they were succeeded by the State Bank of Table Rock...started with a capital of $10,000... In 1892, a fine two story brick building was erected at a cost of $5,500, which was used as the bank’s home. It is finished throughout in an elegant manner, the counters being made of birch wood. The valuables of this institution are safely ensconced in a Diebold safe surrounded by a strong brick vault, which makes it perfectly secure. It is supplied with all the appliances for safe and conservative banking."
“The first bank in this town was started by W. M. Forbes and Wheelock. On the second day of November 1885, they were succeeded by the State Bank of Table Rock...started with a capital of $10,000... In 1892, a fine two story brick building was erected at a cost of $5,500, which was used as the bank’s home. It is finished throughout in an elegant manner, the counters being made of birch wood. The valuables of this institution are safely ensconced in a Diebold safe surrounded by a strong brick vault, which makes it perfectly secure. It is supplied with all the appliances for safe and conservative banking."
The State Bank of Table Rock in its new digs. Photo 202.
1892 - post office gets a new homeNo longer a counter at a general store, the post office moves into its first known own digs in a facility included in ther new bank building.
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Detail of Photo 202, the post office on the southwest side of the building
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1893 - the opera house opensDownload a detailed history of the opera house by Duane Fike, "The Table Rock Opera House, 1893-1900: A Small-Town Community Center," Nebraska History 58: 149-174.
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From Duane Fike's history: "The front of the stage opening, or proscenium arch, resembles a giant gold-tone picture frame. The opening is 20 feet, 4.inches wide and 13 feet, 6 inches high. The gold-painted border measures 20 inches wide and is decorated on the sides and top with recessed panels, each 6 feet long .and 9 inches wide. On the upper side panels and across the top are sixteen porcelain light sockets for incandescent bulbs. Four narrow gold panels fill in the area between the ceiling and the border at the top of the arch. Partially rolled up behind the arch is the front stage curtain, a canvas drop with painted "draperies" framing a pastoral scene."
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1894 - ARGUS MUSEUM BUILDING CONSTRUCTED by merchant william l. taylor
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The William Taylor Building when owned by the Nemecek Brothers, circa 1904-1910.
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1898 - FIRST TELEPHONE LINES ARRIVE |
October 1, 1998 Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln)
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1899 - fire department organized
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The March 2, 1899 Argus reported that the "newly-organized" fire company would that Saturday evening. The roster was detailed. Dr. C. C. Covert was the chief, A. C. Boyd the Assistant chief, C. R. Judkins, President; Henry Shaw, Secretary; C. J. Wood, Treasurer;l and Will Ward, Steward. Members also included Roy Martin, George Cotton, C. I. Norris, C. C. Norris, and Art Longwell, amongst others.
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1900 - table rock population reaches its all time high, 852. population of the county is 11,770
1900 - TABLE ROCK MILL CEASEs OPERATION (APPROXIMATE DATE)
1900 - J. c. Beck's FRAME LIVERY STABLE BURNs DOWN. it was considered an old landmark back then.The business was built by John C. Beck and William L. Taylor. Taylor sold out, built a brick building at the southwest corner of the Square, and opened a general store there; that building is now occupied by the Argus Museum. Beck continued on his own. After the fire, Beck built a brick livery stable to replace it. The stable had a second floor, which was then called a "hall." It was reportedly used for meetings and dances. The ground floor was taken over by various owners and, in 2019, has been occupied by Sitzman Repair for many yeas.
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1888 photo taken at the Beck & Taylor livery barn.
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1901, january 3 - Odd fellows building burns down
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1901 fire at the Odd Fellows building. Photo 999.
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1901 - first car seen on the streets of table rock |
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1902, march- new odd fellows building dedicated
1902 - BRICK SCHOOL DEDICATED
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1903 - dedication of the civil war statute by the grand army of the republic & its auxiliary, the womans relief corps |
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1909 - ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT FOR TABLE ROCK BUILt |
Nebraska State Journal, 1909
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1912 - teddy roosevelt comes through
1912 - METHODIST CHURCH UNDERGOES EXTENSIVE REMODELING, ENLARGEMEnt
Charles & Hazel Cook wedding in front of the newly-remodeled Methodist Church, circa 1912. Thanks to Historical Society member Diane Gidley Anderson for sharing this family photo.
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Photo 630 - the newly-remodeled church
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1912 - table rock commercial club founded, was forerunner of the table rock communty club |
November 21, 1912
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1915 - building now occupied by the pioneer museum constructed |
The building in perhaps the 1940s. In front are Edwin Freeman, Jay Hinton, and Cloyd Freeman.
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1915 - city hall & maintenance garage built
June 18, 1915
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1916 - COMMUNITY BANK ESTABLISHED IN THE HNIZDA BUILDINg |
December 8, 1916 Argus
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1916 - first mention of a movie at the pastime theater, a five-reel "play."We don't know where the theater was.
December 7, 1916
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October 13, 1916 Argus
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1917 - Lincoln Hotel block begun: hotel, movie theater, bank, and garage |
July 13, 1917
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1917 - the community state bank opens in its new building in the lincoln hotel block |
Photo of token owned by Cathy Rech
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November 23, 1917
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1917 - Norris Store moves to the Odd Fellows building
January 13, 1917 Table Rock Argus
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1918 - grand opening of hillman's ideal theater in the lincoln hotel block
Hillman's was the theater in the Lincoln Hotel Block, later re-named the Roxy, then simply the Table Rock Theater.
Detail of Photo 258
January 4, 1918 Argus
1918 - TEST OIL WELL CONSTRUCTED in 1917 deemed UNSUCCESSFUl |
January 14, 1918 Argus, describing 1917 drilling efforts
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1918 - the influenza pandemic
1919 -- band stand in the square built
Successful fundraising efforts led to the construction of a new bandstand in the Square. The date of the denoument of the old wooden bandstand is unknown.
June 22, 1917 Argus
Another of the fundraisers for the new bandstand was at the new movie theater that had opened in January. Ad from the July 5, 1918 Argus.
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The original bandstand is seen in this of a photo taken by Arvid Blecha from the water tower on November 10, 1941. Photo 2303.
May 30, 1919 Argus
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1920 - "THE" FIRe
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1921 - COMMUNITY STATE BANK FAILs |
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1926 - library dedicated, public ladies' restroom opened
It was not the first location for the town's library, but it has been the last. It is still in the building constructed in 1926 with lumber from the dismantled Presbyterian Church purchased by the Alturian Club A public ladies' restroom was part of the construction; it was run under the auspices of the Alturian Club; a much later remodeling of the building expanded the library, eliminating the restroom. The library stands on land donateld by W. C. & Anna Fellers. They had a grand store on the south side of the Square, which they lost in the great fire of 1920. They rebuilt, but it was a modest little building, known to most as the old Lang's Locker. This was across the street from one of the earlier locations of the library, the Village Hall built in 1915 (later the village maintenance building, now in private hands). It is a couple of doors down from the State Bank of Table Rock, whose building was expanded into the old post office; the library was above the post office when the new one was built in 1926.
February 1, 1926 Lincoln Evening Journal
a great little history of table rock's libraries through the years
September 6, 1945 Argus
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1930 - BIG FIRE AT THE BUILDING NOW OCCUPIED BY SITZMAN REPAIR, REDUCES MOST OF IT TO ONE STORy |
January 31, 1930
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1931 - HOTEL MURPHY BURNS DOWN; OWNER W. G. SHEPHERD BUILDS SMALLER HOTEL IN ITS FOOT PRINT, NAMES IT THE TWO-WAY INN. |
Thanks to Ted & Nancy Quackenbush for sharing this family picture, Photo 242.
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1934 -- AUDITORIUM & GYM ADDED TO THE BRICK SCHOOL
State Historical Society photo of new gymnasium/auditorium addition in 1934. Photo 1744.
1937 - SHEPHERD trades his TWO-WAY INN TO george SLAUGHTER for a farm, slaughter RENAMES IT THE RENO INNTed Quackenbush shared a lovely story about the adoption of his wife Nancy by Hugh and Ruby Shepherd McAlpine, and in it, the family at one point moved back to Nebraska to live with the Shepherds at the farm that had been traded for the inn.
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Photo 3660, shared by Ronnie Gilbert, whose family ran the Reno for some years in the 1950s
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1958 - binders' cement plant opens |
May 22, 1958
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1962 - last passenger train stops at depot
February 1962 Lincoln Star
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1963 - brick schoolhouse torn down |
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1965 - new fire hall dedicated
1965 - TABLE ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED
Gordon Bethel at his drugstore
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December 3, 1965 Argus
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1966 - OPERA HOUSE & PIONEER MUSEUMS OPENED |
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1966 - MAPLE GROVE SCHOOL HOUSE MUSEUM OPENED |
November 9, 1965
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1967 - 100 year time capsule dedicated |
Gordon Bethel, Joe Sochor, Floyd Vrtiska
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1968 - 50 YEAR TIME CAPSULE DEDICATED (TO BE OPENED IN 2018)
1968 - Last mass at st. john's catholic church |
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1968 -- new post office dedicated
The OLD post office. Photo 4032, shared by Judy Aylor
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May 4, 1967
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1969 - TURNER LOG CABIN MUSEUM OPENED
Descendant George Turner in front of the museum, a log cabin built in 1854 by his ancestor Robert Turner
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The Turner Cabin just before it was moved to Table Rock -- it had been added onto again and again. It's in there!
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1970 - ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH DONATED TO HISTORICAL SOCIETy
1974 - BELOVED ARGUS EDITOR
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1974 - bricks leave the last brickyard
2014 - the main chimney still stands
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December 4, 1974
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1976 - ARGUS MUSEUM OPENED
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A print trade magazine spread about the new newspaper office; this is one of two pages.
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1988 - depot demolished after severe damage in derailment accident |
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1993 - ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH MUSEUM RENOVATED
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2005 - VETERANS MUSEUM OPENED |
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2008 - STEHLIK CZECH MUSEUM OPENED |
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2013 - MUSEUM AT ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH RESTORED AGAIN |
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2016 - the last school in table rock closes
Excerpt of March 17, 2016 article in the Pawnee Republican
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Photo 2069, from Valerie Binder, May 17, 2016 last school bus to take kids home
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2017 - "new" water fountain gazebo
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By 2014, the gazebo (built in 1926) had acquired a serious list that was not repairable. The roof was still in good shape. In 2017, the Village of Table Rock scraped the gazebo, saving the roof, which was put on a replica built as close as possible to the original. This historical rescue was made possible by a donation from the Table Rock Historical Society which covered much of the cost.
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Just finished, and all dressed up for the 2017 Table Rock Fair by the Park Board
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The gazebo for Living History Day 2017
2017 - dedication of the restored "rock" country school
Perhaps inspired by the 50 years of "can do" spirit of the Table Rock Historical Society, a group of alumni of this country school -- built in 1873 -- formed the Rock School Foundation -- and restored their old school. It was dedicated on October 15, 2017.
September 2016, Howard Blecha, whose father Richard attended the school
September 2017, George Tomek, who spent hundreds of hours restoring the school, overseeing some contractors but doing much of the work himself
The last pupils of Pleasant Valley with teacher Charlene Glathar.
Back Duane Stehlik and Marjorie Fritch. Front: Jackie Flider, Loren Joe Stehlik, and Janet Flider.
Photo 1054, shared by Edward Tomek, who married the teacher!
Teacher Mary Ann Sochor with (back row) Milan Tomek and Richard Blecha (front row), George Tomek, Sylvia & Doralyn Steiner, & JoAnn Kalina. Photo 2098 shared by Bob Blecha
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Back: Dorothy Hunzeker and future husband Rudy Fritch, Jr. Front: Richard Blecha, Sylvia Steiner, George Tomek, JoAnn Kalina, and Milan Tomek. Photo of a photo in the Maple Grove schoolhouse that has not yet been scanned
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