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Dobytown, Nebraska

Coordinates:40°38′30″N99°2′51″W / 40.64167°N 99.04750°W /40.64167; -99.04750
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United States historic place
Dobytown
Commemorative plaque at the Dobytown site
Dobytown, Nebraska is located in Nebraska
Dobytown, Nebraska
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Dobytown, Nebraska is located in the United States
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LocationKearney County, Nebraska
Nearest cityKearney, Nebraska
Coordinates40°38′30″N99°2′51″W / 40.64167°N 99.04750°W /40.64167; -99.04750
Built1859
NRHP reference No.74001125[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1974

Dobytown is aghost town inKearney County,Nebraska, United States,[2] three miles west ofFort Kearny. Officially namedKearney City, the community was established in 1859. The town was given the common name ofDobytown because it contained mostlyadobe buildings.[3] Although the community no longer exists,[2] the site was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1] The site is located at an altitude of 2,129 feet (649 m).[2]

As one of the most important stops for travelers betweenIndependence, Missouri and the West Coast,[4] Dobytown evolved to meet the needs of the thousands of soldiers, traders, teamsters andpioneers traveling west.Gambling,liquor andprostitution were among its main attractions.[5] Dobytown also served as the major outfitting point west of theMissouri River, the center of frontier transportation from 1860 to 1866. APony Express station was located in Dobytown and it was the firstcounty seat ofKearney County.

One of Dobytown's most famous visitors, GeneralWilliam Tecumseh Sherman described the horriblewhiskey he was served there astanglefoot.[6]

The completion of theUnion Pacific Railroad in 1869 reduced the travel along the trail and by the fort. TheU.S. Army issued an order for abandonment ofFort Kearny on 22 May 1871. This caused Dobytown to be abandoned.[7]

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  1. ^ab"National Register Information System".National Register of Historic Places.National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^abcU.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dobytown, Nebraska
  3. ^Morton, Julius Sterling (1899).The Conservative. Morton Print. Company. p. 87.
  4. ^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)."Kearney" .Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 707; see lines 11 and 12.It [KEARNEY] is to be distinguished from an older and once famous prairie city, popularly known as "Dobey Town"....
  5. ^Mattes, Merrill J. (1987).The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie. U of Nebraska Press. p. 220.ISBN 0-8032-8153-6.
  6. ^Athearn, Robert G.,William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West, University of Oklahoma Press, 1956,ISBN 978-0-80612-769-9. Pg. 60
  7. ^Capace, Nancy (1999).Encyclopedia of Nebraska. North American Book Dist LLC. p. 335.ISBN 978-0-403-09834-7.
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