The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . at his home in Scotia; he has just filled his one hundredth year,which marks him the oldest resident in the Loup country, if not indeed theoldest man in our state. Shortly after the postoffice was established the North Loupers decidedto build a school house. These people were indeed people of education andk;.ew how to appreciate good schools, and ihey proposed to make the rightkind of a start. Accordingly a dug-out, fourteen feet square, was con-structed—a humble enoogh beginning, but inestimably better than nothingat all—and Mi
The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . at his home in Scotia; he has just filled his one hundredth year,which marks him the oldest resident in the Loup country, if not indeed theoldest man in our state. Shortly after the postoffice was established the North Loupers decidedto build a school house. These people were indeed people of education andk;.ew how to appreciate good schools, and ihey proposed to make the rightkind of a start. Accordingly a dug-out, fourteen feet square, was con-structed—a humble enoogh beginning, but inestimably better than nothingat all—and Miss Kate Badger, now Mrs. J. W. Holliday, was installed asteacher. This was in the summer of 1874. Here then we have the firstschool in Valley county. A few months later the county was districted forschool purposes. All the south half was designated as District No. 1, with VILLAGE ORGANIZATION 137 North Loup as the centering point: the north half became District No. its only school held for a time in the Mortensen dugout, north of Ord, ?n?-t a ro. in charge of Mrs. Emma Haskell, wife of Ofson S. Haskell, one of thefounders of Qrd, 138 THE TRAIL OF THE LOUP At North Loup the dugout school-house was early discarded for a neatlittle cedar log cabin, erected on Elder Babcocks land, at the edge of theof the present townsite. In the fall of 1873, W. J. Holliday opened ageneral store on his homestead, not far from the postoffice and schoolhouse. Here naturally enough the center of interest came to be, and otherbuildings were soon springing up and making the beginnings of quite avillage. Just then the grasshoppers came, and with the loss of crops every-thing came to a stand still. The village, though, managed somehow tosurvive, and was regularly surveyed and platted in 1877, in anticipation ofthe heavy influx of settlers which commenced the very next year. Theoriginal plat of North Loup, as may be seen from the cut herewith given,comprised six blocks only. The streets, denomi
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