Nemaha and nine other counties in southeast Nebraska produced more applies in 1912 than did the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Utah. So what happened?
Mother nature reared her ugly head.
In November of 1940 a disastrous freeze killed thousands of the Nebraska fruit trees and most of the orchards in Nebraska were abandoned.
Just think what could have been...
Nemaha County was established in 1855. That makes the county 163 years old. That is older than the majority of the people who are reading this article.
The county seat is Auburn, but it was not always so.