Inland History

The following is from the History of the State of Nebraska by A. T. Andreas. Inland        Inland was the first town laid out in Adams County by the Burlington & Missouri Railroad Town Company, and
      was situated on that road about six miles east of Hastings, and was established in the early part of the summer of
      1871. Owing largely to its nearness to the city of Hastings, it made slow progress, and, up to 1878, contained
      three small business houses, a few residences and a large two-story school building.

      In 1878, the station was moved three miles east to a point on the railroad just inside of the boundary of Clay
      County, and the old town became extinct, nothing remaining to mark that it ever had been, except the
      schoolhouse and a few traces showing where houses had once stood.

      The present town of Inland comprises a station, grain elevator and one general store belonging to J. S. Brooks, in
      which he keeps the telegraph and post office. The land on which the town is situated was owned originally by F.
      Fixen, who procured the same from the railroad company. The grain elevator was built in the summer of 1879 by
      N. L. Thatcher, who used it until the following year, when he sold it to J. D. Bain and W. J. Turner, both of
      Harvard. The business is run in the interests of these parties by J. R. McIntosh, and, during the year 1881,
      shipped 23,807 bushels of wheat, 2,975 bushels of barley and 2,300 of corn; the total sales of grain for that year
      amounted to $23,061.

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