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Chase County
Chase county was named in honor of
Champion S. Chase who was at one time mayor of Omaha, Nebraska.
The county was organized in 1886.
The boundaries were defined by an act approved February 27, 1873.
Mr. Chase was the first attorney general of
the state.
Best
Best post office was named in
honor of its first postmistress, Mrs. Ethel M. Best, who began her term of
office in 1902. It is an inland post
office in the southwestern part of Chase County in Valley precinct.
Blanche
A post office in the northeastern
part of Chase County in Enterprise precinct. It was named after the daughter of
G. C. Davis, the first postmaster.
Champion
The town of Champion was named in
honor of Champion S. Chase, late of Omaha, Nebraska. The precinct has the same
name.
Chase
This post office took its name
from the county in which it is situated. This post office is in Macedonia
precinct.
Enders
This town was named for a ranchman
who lived in the vicinity. The town was laid out by the Lincoln Land Company and
was so named by the company.
Inperial
Thomas Mercier homesteaded the
land on which this town is located and also laid out and named the town site.
Mr. Mercier was an emigrant from Canada and it is supposed that he named the
town either after a town in Canada or after the British Imperial government.
Imperial is the county seat of Chase County.
The precinct is also named Imperial.
Lamar
Named after Lucius Q. C. Lamar,
secretary of the interior in President Cleveland's cabinet and later an
associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. The precinct has
the
same name.
Wauneta
The town of Wauneta was named by
its early settlers after the popular song Juanita. It was the intention to keep
the spelling of the name of the song but since there was already a town in
Nebraska named Juniata, the spelling was modified to Wauneta in order to
prevent confusion. Gannett's account of place names erroneously states that
wauneta is an Indian word meaning "winter camp." The precinct is also
called "Wauneta.
Nebraska Place-Names - Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick A.M.
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