Beatrice (Nebraska)
| Beatrice | |
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| Nickname : Watershed Capital of Nebraska | |
 Gage County Courthouse |
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| Location in Nebraska | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | July 4, 1857 (1871) |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Nebraska |
| County : | Gage County |
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 16 ′ N , 96 ° 45 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 12,496 (as of: 2000) |
| Population density : | 644.1 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 19.4 km 2 (about 7 mi 2 ) of which 19.4 km 2 (about 7 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 392 m |
| Postal code : | 68310 |
| Area code : | +1 402 |
| FIPS : | 31-03390 |
| GNIS ID : | 0827241 |
| Website : | www.beatrice.ne.gov |
| Mayor : | Dennis Schuster |
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Beatrice is a city and the county seat of Gage County in the US state of Nebraska .
Demographics
According to the US Census 2000 , Beatrice has 12,496 inhabitants.
location
Beatrice is located in Gage County in southern Nebraska at the intersection of US Highway 77 and US Highway 136 . It is about 65 km from Lincoln , the capital of Nebraska.
history
Beatrice was founded on July 4, 1857 by pioneers who sailed up the Missouri River on a steamer to open up new land in Nebraska. It was named after Julia Beatrice Kinney, the eldest daughter of the first president of the Nebraska Association , Judge John Fitch Kinney . The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad reached the site in 1871. Between 1874 and 1876, Beatrice fell victim to a plague of locusts. The town's growth slowed somewhat as a result, but by the 1880s Beatrice was so developed that trains ran in all directions. In the years 1870 to 1890, the Germans were the largest group of immigrants. In 1894, George Everett Haskell and William W. Bosworth founded the Beatrice Creamery Company . In 1888 Senator Algernon Sidney Paddock had a hotel and opera house built, but they were destroyed in a fire in 1919. The hotel was newly built, reopened in 1924 and is now a retirement home. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The city's first library, the Carnegie Library , was in Beatrice in 1904. The building has not been used as a library since 1991. Beatrice High School had a later famous graduate in 1929: actor Robert Taylor (then known as Spangler Arlington Brugh ). A (meanwhile closed) bank building in the village is, although "an insignificant building" ( Wolfgang Büscher ), a creation of the world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright .
sons and daughters of the town
- Edward Wight Washburn (1881-1934), chemist
- Oliver Kirk (1884–1958), boxer and Olympic champion
- John P. Fulton (1902–1965), special effects expert and cameraman
- Gene L. Coon (1924–1973), screenwriter and television producer
- James P. Collman (born 1932), chemist
Others
- Contrary to the conventional pronunciation, Beatrice is stressed not on the first but on the second syllable ([ biˈætɹɪs ]).
- Beatrice is best known for the Homestead National Monument of America .
Web link
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- Page no longer available , search in web archives: US Census 2000 (PDF file; 39 kB)
- Beatrices website
- Beatrice story on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln website