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Courthouse and Jail Rocks are two rock formations located near Bridgeport in the Nebraska Panhandle. The Oregon-California Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Pony Express Trail and the Sidney-Deadwood Trail all ran near the rocks. The pair of rock formations served as a landmark along the trails for many pioneers traveling west in the 19th century.
Courthouse and Jail Rocks: Bridgeport: Courthouse Rock is a sandstone outcropping south of the Oregon Trail. A smaller feature to the east is called the Jail Rock. Chimney Rock National Historic Site: Bayard: A clay and sandstone column resembling a tall factory chimney that is over 300 feet (91 m) today. Rebecca Winters' Gravesite: Scottsbluff
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26] Now a local history museum. [27]
Chimney Rock was designated a National Historic Site on August 9, 1956, [2] and is a National Park Service affiliated area, maintained and administered by History Nebraska with NPS technical support. Chimney Rock and Independence Rock further west in Wyoming are two of the prominent features along the Oregon Trail.
Rock County Courthouse† Rock: Bassett: 1939 Art Deco style Saline County Courthouse† Saline: Wilber: 1928 Grecian-Doric style Sarpy County Courthouse: Sarpy: Papillion: 1974 Modern style Old courthouse still stands: Classical Revival style (administrative site) Saunders County Courthouse† Saunders: Wahoo: 1904 Second Renaissance Revival style
The trail went north from Sidney past Courthouse and Jail Rocks to present-day Bridgeport, Nebraska where it crossed the North Platte River via the Clarke Bridge to present-day Northport, Nebraska, Red Willow, Running Water (on the Niobrara River), Red Cloud Agency, and eventually on two separate branches; one to Deadwood and one via Four Mile ...
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