Pibel Lake and Lodge

ID: 455 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG3542.PH000131-000001 ~ Date: 1910 circa
This file appears in: Pibel Lake Recreation Area
Pibel Lake and Lodge
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Pibel Lake and Lodge. Postcard from the collection of Nels Nelson. Backnote: "Pibel Lodge torn down in 1945 or 1946 after a community get together.

This file appears in: Pibel Lake Recreation Area

By The Explore Nebraska History team
Pibel Lake grew out of an 1897-1898 irrigation claim for water rights by Edwin Pibel, called Clear Creek Ditch. Three years earlier, a diversion dam had been placed across the creek to form a lake, but the irrigation ditch was eventually abandoned…