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Creighton Township is one of thirty townships in Knox County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 202 at the 2020 census. [1] A 2023 estimate placed the township's population at 200. [1] The Village of Bazile Mills lies within the Township.
Aerial view, 1923 "Welcome to the Omaha livestock market" The Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, were founded in 1883 in South Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. [1] A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. [2]
Creighton Bottling Works, also started making soda pop. In 1899 telephone service was installed by M.C. Theisen and Mr. Diehl. Northwestern Bell built long-distance lines from Norfolk. Creighton became a second class city in 1907, the same year a two-story brick school was built in the south part of town.
The $27 million price tag includes 100 acres (40 hectares) of prime property along the Oklahoma River in a growing city of roughly 700,000 residents.
Downtown Karnes City near dusk City Hall in Karnes City Karnes City National Bank is across from City Hall. Karnes City is a city in and county seat of Karnes County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,111 at the 2020 census, [4] up from 3,042 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Henry Karnes of the Texas Revolution. Karnes is ...
Six local businessmen, including William A. Paxton, Herman Kountze and John A. Creighton, formed the Union Stockyards on December 1, 1883 and purchased 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) of land. [4] At that same point the businessmen formed the South Omaha Land Company, platting the city of South Omaha that same year over the remaining 1,700 acres (6.9 km ...
The 1875 Kansas quarantine law would eventually shut down eastern Kansas rail depots, which led to the development of Dodge City and Ogallala, Nebraska as cattle towns. From 1875 until 1880, the Chisholm Trail, also referred to as the Eastern Trail, became a feeder route into the Western Trail.
T. B. Hord moved with his family from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Central City in the late 1880s. There, he established the Hord Land and Cattle Company, the Hord and Shonsey Cattle Company, the T. B. Hord Alfalfa Meal Company, the 70,000-acre (28,000 ha) Lakeside Ranch, a number of lumber yards and feed and farm supply businesses in central Nebraska, and fifty grain elevators.