A Brief History of Arnold. (Stories collected from Noreen Mill’s One Hundred Years on the South Loup, Solomon Butcher’s Pioneer History of Custer County Nebraska (reprinted by Purcell’s Inc. Broken Bow, NE, and an atlas from Kim Beshaler) “For weeks the covered wagon...
“T.L. Jones Mercantile” – 1914 BrewBakers Coffee House & Gifts – 2016 T.L. (Tucker Lon) Jones came to Arnold on March 13, 1912, to manage a general merchandise store that Duckett and Maddox (Custer Hotel site) had rented to Omar Helton and Thomas...
In 1892, Center School District 185, was located about 4½ miles southeast of Callaway, Nebraska, and about 3 miles north of the site of the old village of Lodi. It stood on the south side of the South Loup River in the west-central portion of Custer Township or...
Grand Central Hotel, built by Robert Probert in 1887 was just south of Unganst’s Hardware store, which he had also built, in 1884. Both buildings were on the corner of the present Custer Hotel lot. A series of folks managed the hotel until it was sold in 1903 to...
(Library locations are italicized.) In February of 1913, eight ladies met at the Wm. Jennings home to organize a club called the Arnold Women’s Improvement Club AWIC. They elected officers: Mrs. Fred Brittan president, Mrs. Jennings, vice-president, Mrs. Tom Backes...
208 Lincoln Street, Arnold, NE 69120 Arnold Church of the Nazarene started as a tabernacle meeting held by Reverend Theodore Ludwig. The establishment of the church received much opposition. The Arnold citizens were not in favor of having a holiness church, they...
