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Banner County
Banner County was named by
enthusiastic citizens who wished to make it the "banner county" of the state.
According to G. L. Shumway, deputy
secretary of the state department of agriculture, who had a hand in naming it,
the name was decided upon because the county was, "to be the brightest
star in the constellation of Nebraska counties."
Banner county was formed from
Cheyenne County by a vote taken November 6, 1888.
Ashford
This place is situated in Long
township near Pumpkin creek. The post office was established in October, 1887,
and named after William Ashford, the first postmaster. The post office
has been discontinued.
Bighorn
This place is in Lone Pine
precinct. The name was applied to a canyon on the south side of the valley in
the vicinity as well as to a neighboring table mountain, during the time of the
first grangers. During the pioneer period there were mountain sheep on the
mountain which fact seems to account for the name.
Epworth
This name was given to the place
because of the religious inclinations of the people of the vicinity. It is in
Flower precinct.
Flowerfield
This is a neighborhood and post
office near the line of Flower and Field precincts, in Field precinct, and was
so named after the two precincts, also from the fact that the vicinity was a
beautiful high table land, which at the time of its settlement in the '80's was covered with a profusion of wild flowers.
Freeport
This place was named by E. M.
Cowen, the first postmaster and founder of the town, after Freeport, Illinois,
which was near his old home.
Gary
The first postmaster of Gary, in
Flower precinct, was William Reep and the post office was named in honor of
James A. Gary, then postmaster-general in President McKinley's cabinet. The post office has been discontinued.
Harrisburg
So named by Mr. Schooley, a
settler from Pennsylvania after Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Nebraska,
is the county seat of Banner County.
Heath
This place is in Lone Pine
precinct. It received its name through the Scotch inspiration of an early
settler named MacLatchky.
Hull
This town, in Hull precinct, was
named for a former merchant and postmaster by the name of J. T. Hull who lived
in the vicinity about forty years ago.
Kirk
Kirk post office was named in
honor of its first postmaster. It is in Lone Pine precinct.
Loraine
This place is in Springs precinct.
It was named for a relative of J. T. Bunger, the postmaster and an early
homesteader.
Van
Van was only an inland post office
in Field precinct, established at the home of T. A. Van Pelt and named for him.
It was discontinued several years ago.
Nebraska Place-Names - Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick A.M.
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