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Fairbury is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 3,942 at the 2010 census. Fairbury has been closely connected with railroading for much of its history. It was founded on the projected route of a railway, and grew as a shipping center.
The Woral C. Smith Lime Kiln and Limestone House near Fairbury, Nebraska was built in 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]It consists of a lime kiln built in 1874 and a one-and-a-half-story house built of limestone and lime in 1876.
The Jefferson County Courthouse is a historic building in Fairbury, Nebraska, and the courthouse of Jefferson County, Nebraska. It is the third building to house the courthouse; a first courthouse was built in 1873, and it was relocated to the opera house in 1882. [2] The current courthouse was built in 1890. [2]
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Its county seat is Fairbury. [2] The county was named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America. In the Nebraska license plate system, Jefferson County is represented by the prefix 33 (it had the thirty-third-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
The IOOF Temple Building in Fairbury, Nebraska was built during 1894–95. It served as the Odd Fellows Hall for Fairbury for almost 70 years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Its architect was William Clifton and it is a Romanesque Revival architecture-styled building. [1]
At 7:30PM on August 9, 1894, Locomotive 213 departed the station in Fairbury, Nebraska, with two passenger cars, due to reach Lincoln, Nebraska two hours later. [1] At approximately 9:20PM, minutes away from its destination, the train reached a 400-foot-long trestle which was located southwest of town and carried trains forty feet above the waters of Salt Creek. [1]