“Frontier Settlement and Community Development in Richardson, Burt and Platte Counties – 1854 – 1870” by Nicholas Joseph Aieta

Photo: Mt. Zion Brick Church – Richardson County – 2012 – Ammodramus – Creative Commons

The University of Nebraska – Lincoln offers this document from the History Department; Dissertations, Theses and Student Research. “Frontier Settlement and Community Development in Richardson, Burt and Platte Counties – 1854 – 1870″ by Nicholas Joseph Aieta” – December 2007 on the open source, digital commons library. This paper includes the history of three early Nebraska settlement counties; Richardson, Burt and Platte from Territory through Statehood. What is interesting about this research is where the first groups of settlers came from. If you are doing family tree research you might find this helpful. You can download the PDF document here (over 300 pages).

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Additional links to access this document from the UNL Library:

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historydiss/

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=historydiss

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