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1803
 Louisiana Purchase

      

 

                                
State & Area 1804, August
 Lewis & Clark Camped
north of Blair 		1819
Government established Fort Atkinson
on the bluffs of the Missouri  

1827
June, Fort Atkinson abandoned
by the government

  1846
Mormon's temporary settlement at Winter Quarters
outside present-day Omaha

1855
Carter Brother  Source
Original settlers of city site
 1855 Washington County
Established   Source

1865, April 1
Sinking of the Steamboat Bertrand
1867 March 1
Nebraska Statehood

1872
Blair town was organized
as a city of the second class  Source

   1896
County Seat assigned to Blair		     1920 Prohibition began in the U.S.,
which banned the sale of
all alcoholic beverages.
It was repealed in 1933		                
Railroad           1857
Railroad track was laid
as far as present Blair		     1886 
Blair Railroad Bridge built		       1929
 Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge
(Auto Bridge)		                
Congregational Church               1870, February 10
Congregational Church of Blair it organized
 1874, Church Built		                          
Schools               1871
 Old Blair School Built		   1899
 Blair High School		                      
Courthouse                 1889
 Washington County Courthouse		                        
Crowell Mansion                 1884
 Crowell Mansion Built		                        
Dana College                 1886
 Trinity Seminary--Old Main
(Central Structure)		 1893
 Trinity Seminary --Old Main
(North Wing)		 1904
 Trinity Seminary --Old Main
(South Wing)		                    

Main Street

                 1881 
Blair Bank Building
(Huber/Mathiesen Building)		 1890
 Pilot Building		                      
Walker Avenue                     1901
 Post Office		 1912
 Fire Hall		                  

Public &
Commercial areas

                       1916
Carnegie Library		                  
Residential                                          

Publications
(books, newspapers, plat maps, etc.)

                  1894
Plat Book Published