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There are no towns of any great size or importance in the county.
The
following places are post offices and some of them very small country
villages. They are Rock Falls, Sacramento, Phelps Center, Williamsburg,
Industry, Integrity and Highland.
Phelps Center
The county seat and is situated in the center
of the county. It contains about a dozen buildings and has a population of
about eighty.
In business, about all branches in an ordinary country trade
are represented and notwithstanding its small size two newspapers are
published here. They are Nebraska Nugget, edited and published by
T. M. Hopwood, and the Phelps County News, edited by Henry Hazlett.
Both are enterprising weekly papers, well filled with the local news of
the county.
From its central location and the fact of its being the county
seat, Phelps Center is growing somewhat and will doubtless soon become a
thriving and prosperous village. Its location is a pleasant one, on the
high upland prairie.
Rock Falls
Situated on Spring Creek, in the southwestern
corner of the county.
Its location is a good one for a town, and it
already has a few business houses and a population of about 100. In course
of time, as the settlement of the a county increases, it will no doubt
make a thriving little village.
Sacramento
Situated in the southeastern part of the county,
on the high upland prairie.
The location is a pleasant one. The different
branches of business in a country trade are well represented and it
already has a population of about seventy-five.
Considering the fact that
it is located so far from a railroad, it is already a thriving place, and,
with the increasing settlement of the country, it should soon make a
prosperous county village.
History
of Nebraska 1882
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