Sherman County Courthouse (Nebraska)
Sherman County Courthouse | |
NRHP reference No. | 89002225[1] |
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Added to NRHP | January 10, 1990 |
The Sherman County Courthouse, at 630 O St. in
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1] It was deemed important as a good example of a "County Citadel"-type courthouse.[2]
History
The first Sherman County Courthouse, financed by $5,000 in bonds, was built in 1874, the year after the county was created. However, the courthouse burned down on the day of its dedication. A second courthouse was made of brick and was built in 1878, using some of the surviving wall of the first building. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad donated $1,200 to the county for the construction of this second courthouse.[3]
The third and current Sherman County Courthouse opened in 1921. It is tan brick with
The courthouse square was the scene of a riot on June 14, 1934 (the "Flag Day Riot"), and a subsequent trial. The riot marked the end of the Farm Holiday Movement in Nebraska. The Farm Holiday Movement was an agrarian farmer's movement in reaction to poor agricultural conditions in the 1930s. In the riot, the well-known national labor figure Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor and other activists, including Communists, were arrested. Bloor recounted the affair in her 1940 autobiography, We Are Many, and "the arrests, trial, and subsequent appeals were reported nationally."[5]
References
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Barbara Beving Long (November 8, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sherman County Courthouse / SM04-135". National Park Service. and accompanying photo from 1989
- ^ Oliver B. Pollak, Nebraska Courthouses: Contention, Compromise, & Community (2002). Arcadia, p. 33.
- ^ Oliver B. Pollak, Nebraska Courthouses: Contention, Compromise, & Community (2002). Arcadia, p. 90.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form[usurped]," p. 6.
External links
- More photos of the Sherman County Courthouse at Wikimedia Commons
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form[usurped]