The youngest of twelve children, George Hindley, was born in Ontario, Canada on November 27, 1852. When he was six, his father passed away. Within a year, his mother was married again to a man to whom all her children objected. In 1866, his mother also died, leaving him an orphan at fourteen years of […]
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The Weeping Water Agricultural Society Auditorium was one of four structures built as part of the Depression-era New Deal that were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. The two-story Streamline Moderne style building was constructed in 1938 with the help of a $40,000 Works Progress Administration grant. The WPA was a
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On March 1, 1867, President Andrew Johnson signed a proclamation admitting Nebraska as the 37th state of the union, thirteen years after being organized as a Territory and just two years after the civil war. Two months later, on Friday, May 31st, Cass County resident and State Senator Issac Wiles (1830-1921) introduced House Roll No.
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