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Welcome to Boone County
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Boone County Ladies 1907
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I am the Boone
county coordinator.
We
have many genealogical resources
available here.
We would
appreciate any
contributions you would like to make
to this site.
Types
of materials we are looking to
include on this website are:
family histories,
biographies, photos, obituaries,
tombstone photos
& inscriptions, cemetery
lists, etc.
If you have any the
above items please contact me by
clicking on my name.
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Brief
History:
Boone County is a county
located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As
of the 2010 United States Census, the
population was 285,407, making it
the second-most populous county in
Nebraska. The county was created in
1859.
Boone County, Nebraska, was created
on March 1, 1871, and named in honor of
frontiersman Daniel Boone. The
settlement of Boone County began
with the arrival of explorers and settlers
in the late 1860s. One of the first white
settlers was S.D. Avery, who in 1871
established a claim near what would become
the town of Albion. The initial
settlement was encouraged by the
expansion of railroads and the
availability of land under the Homestead
Act of
1862.
The community of Albion was platted
in 1872 and became the county seat after a
contest with the town of Boone.
This rivalry for the county seat was
common in many frontier counties,
reflecting the ambition and growth
aspirations of the nascent
communities. Agriculture quickly became
the backbone of the local economy, with
wheat,
corn, and later oats being
predominant.
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