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Hall County, Nebraska

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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28historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

62,895pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 28 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Grand Island, Wood River, Doniphan.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Nebraska is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Hall titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

18 of 28 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

28 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
4th Street Commercial Historic District	Grand Island	District	2019
Bartenbach, H. J., House	Grand Island	Building	1986
Burlington Railroad Depot	Grand Island	Building	2014
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Grand Island	Building	1982
Evangelische Lutherische Dreienigkeit Kirche	Grand Island	Building	1986
Giese, Heinrich, House	Grand Island	Building	2006
Glade-Donald House	Grand Island	Building	1985
Gloe Brothers Service Station	Wood River	Building	2000
Grand Island Carnegie Library	Grand Island	Building	1975
Grand Island FCC Monitoring Station	Grand Island	Site	1973
Grand Island Historic District	Grand Island	District	2017
Grand Island Senior High School	Grand Island	Building	1999
Grand Island United States Post Office and Courthouse	Grand Island	Building	2006
Grand Island VA Hospital	Grand Island	District	2018
Hall County Courthouse	Grand Island	Building	1977
Hamilton-Donald House	Grand Island	Building	1986
Hargis, Andrew M., House	Grand Island	Building	1978
Hotel Yancey (The)	Grand Island	Building	1984
Huff, Lee, Apartment Complex	Grand Island	Building	1994
Liederkranz	Grand Island	Building	1978
Lincoln Highway-Grand Island Seedling Mile	Grand Island	Structure	2013
Nine Bridges Bridge	Doniphan	Structure	1992
Roeser, Oscar, House	Grand Island	Building	1982
Shady Bend Gas Station, Grocery, and Diner	Grand Island	Building	2008
Soldiers and Sailors Home	Grand Island	District	2021
Stolley, William, Homestead and Site of Fort Independence	Grand Island	Building	1972
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer	Grand Island	Building	2015
Townsley-Murdock Immigrant Trail Site	Alda	Site	1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hall was formed in 1858 (1858-11-04) from Buffalo.

HALL created by Nebraska Territory from BUFFALO and Non-County Area 1.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hall County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
116	8,572	17,206	23,720	27,523	32,186	35,757	47,690	53,534	62,895

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alda Cemetery	40.8593	-98.47516
Berwick Cemetery	40.96359	-98.55944
Campbell Cemetery	40.77803	-98.40883
Cedar View Cemetery	40.78486	-98.36117
East Grand Island Cemetery	40.94453	-98.31055
Grand Island Cemetery	40.90365	-98.37496
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	40.98898	-98.63085
Nebraska Veterans Home Cemetery	40.94668	-98.37784
Rosedale Cemetery	40.7125	-98.43579
Westlawn Memorial Cemetery	40.90345	-98.3896
Wiegert Cemetery	41.0246	-98.28287
Wood River Cemetery	40.82196	-98.56979

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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