Seward County was formed in 1855 and later organized in 1867. According to Wikipedia, it was originally called Greene County but was renamed in 1862 after William H Seward who was the Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. They didn’t even wait for the Civil War to get over. Clearly these were some futuristic thinkers.
Seward, Nebraska is the county seat of Seward County. The other big city is Milford. Villages include: Goehner, Pleasant Dale, Staplehurst, Utica, Beaver Crossing, Bee, Cordova, and Garland. I either didn’t know there was a “Bee, Nebraska” or forgot.
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Seward, the city, is home to Concordia College.