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Nebraska County Countdown: #3 Gage County

This courthouse might be #1. It looks like a church. And I like churches. 9/10.

Gage County was established in 1955 and was named in honor of Rev. William D. Gage who was the first Methodist Pastor in Nebraska and Chaplain of the First Territorial Legislature.

Homestead National Monument

In the early 1900s, many in this state urged Congress to create a national park site on Daniel Freeman’s homestead. Daniel Freeman was among the first to file a claim to 160 acres of free land offered by the Homestead Act of 1862. Freeman was a Union soldier during the Civil War.