NEBRASKA

See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY  , a city and the county-seat of Otoe county, Nebraska, U.S.A., situated on the high W. bank of the Missouri river, about 40 M. below Omaha . Pop . (188o) 4183; (1890) 11,494; (1900) 7380 (882 foreign-born); (1910) 5488 . It is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Missouri Pacific railway systems . A railway and wagon bridge spans the Missouri . The city is the seat of the state Institute for the Blind (1875), and has three public parks and a public library . The city is a distributing centre for a beautiful farming region, the trade in grain being especially large . In 'goo Nebraska City ranked third among the manufacturing cities of the state, the manufactures including canned fruits and vegetables, packed pork, flour, oatmeal, hominy, grits, meal, starch, cider-vinegar, agricultural implements, windmills, paving bricks, concrete, sewer pipe, beer, over-alls and shirts . It is one of the oldest settlements of the state . The first " old Fort Kearney " was established on the site of Nebraska City in 1847, but was abandoned in 1848, and the fort was re-established farther W. on the Platte Iver (see KEARNEY) . Otoe county was organized in 1855, and the original Nebraska City was incorporated and made the county-seat in the same year . This city, together with Kearney City, incorporated in 1855—adjacent to the first " old " Fort Kearney—and South Nebraska City, were consolidated by the legislature into the present Nebraska City in 1858 .

(Twelve other city " additions " and so-called " towns," all within or closely adjacent to the present city, were in existence in 1857.) Nebraska City was for some years the largest city of the state . In 1858 it became the headquarters of a

great freighting-firm that distributed supplies for the United States government among the army posts between the Missouri river and the Rocky Mountains; in seven months in 1859 this one firm employed 602 men, used 517 wagons, 5682 oxen, and 75 mules, and shipped 2,782,258 lb. of freight . Nebraska City was the initial point of several roads, parts at one time or another of the" Oregon," " Old California," and " Great Salt Lake " trails . (See NEBRASKA (State): History.) Nebraska City became a city of the second class in 1871 and a city of the first class in 1901 .