Plum Creek Prairie Historic Site

ID: 340
This file appears in: Plum Creek Prairie

View of marker 421

This file appears in: Plum Creek Prairie

By The Explore Nebraska History team
On January 2, 1863, Robert T. Gale filed the first homestead in Seward County, then "Greene County." A surveyor, he chose an irregular tract along Plum Creek that provided shelter from the north winds…