Nebraska State Historical Society

 

Title

Some Historical Data About Washington County

Authors

W. H. Woods

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 1885

Comments

Published in Transactions and Reports of the Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I (Lincoln, NE, 1885).

Agreeable to our promise to continue our investigations; we, last Tuesday, visited the site of the old village mentioned in Bell’s History of Washington County, page 39, as the site of an old Mormon settlement of 1845; but thought by Mr. Grenell and others to have been of much older date, and probably a farm station or outpost of either Fort Atkinson, which lay about one mile east, or Fort Calhoun, four miles south.