Holdredge. South Sioux City. Lexington. Gering. and Ogal. lala. At this time. with the States population over the 1 million mark for the first time. all parts of Nebraska were pretty well settled. except. of course. for the Sand Hills region which is still sparsely populated. Several nationalities were dominant in the flood of immigrants who brought their families and cultures to settle and prosper in the fertile western plains. German people set up a colony at Columbus in 1856. and in the next year farther west at Grand Island. Norfolk had its beginnings about 10 years later. in 1866.
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