Gibbon celebrates 150th birthday with year of events

about 3 years in Washington Times

GIBBON, Neb. (AP) - The first settlers of Gibbon arrived on April 7, 1871, to a barren land that had been ravaged by fire just a few days before. The members of the Soldier’s Free Homestead Colony were led by Col. John Thorpe, who already had settled a colony in ...

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