Collection of Nebraska pioneer reminiscences . tally drowned in April, 1857, while crossing the Elkhornseven miles northeast of Fremont. The Marvin home was amile and a quarter west of Fremont and this house was therendezrvous of the parties who laid out Fremont. Mr. Marvnuwas one of the town company. The first celebration of the Fourth of July was in 1857. Rob-ert Kittle sold the first goods. J. G. and Towner Smith con-ducted the first regular store. In 1860, the first district schoolwas opened with Miss McNeil teacher. Then came Mary Heaton,now Mi-s. Hawthorne. Mrs. Margaret Turner, followed
Collection of Nebraska pioneer reminiscences . tally drowned in April, 1857, while crossing the Elkhornseven miles northeast of Fremont. The Marvin home was amile and a quarter west of Fremont and this house was therendezrvous of the parties who laid out Fremont. Mr. Marvnuwas one of the town company. The first celebration of the Fourth of July was in 1857. Rob-ert Kittle sold the first goods. J. G. and Towner Smith con-ducted the first regular store. In 1860, the first district schoolwas opened with Miss McNeil teacher. Then came Mary Heaton,now Mi-s. Hawthorne. Mrs. Margaret Turner, followed by JamesG. Smith, conducted the first hotel situated where the First Na-tional bank now is. This was also the stage house, and hereall the tradei-s stopped en route from Omaha to Denver. In theevening the old hotel resounded with the music of violin and thesound of merry dancing. Charles Smith conducted a drug storewhere Holloway and Fowler now are. A telegraph line was es-tablished in 1860. The first public school w^as held in a building 78. Monument at Fremont, Nebraska, marking the OverlandEmigrant Trails or California Road Erected by Lewis-Clark Chapter, Daughters of the American Eevolution THE BEGINNINGS OF FREMONT 79 owned by the Congregational church at the corner of Eighth andD streets. Miss Sarah Pneuman, now Mrs, Harrington, of Fre-mont, was the teacher. When court convened, school adjourned,there being no courthouse. In three years the school had grownfrom sixteen to one hundred pupils, with three teachers. Thefirst public schoolhouse was built at the comer of Fifth and Dstreets. In 1866 the Union Pacific was built. The first bankwas established in 1867. The Tribune, the first newspaper, waspublished July 24, 1868. The Central School was built in1869 and the teacher, in search of truant boys, would ascend tothe top, where with the aid of field glass, she could see from thePlatte to the Elkhorn. To-day, can be seen on the foundationsof this old landmark, the marks of
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