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Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Bill Kelly, Nebraska Public Media, December 16, 2019. Residents’ discussions, university planning work and the proposed higher-ground site near Logan View. Includes the aerial photograph credited to the State of Nebraska.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
William Henry Buss and Thomas T. Osterman, vol. II (1921), p. 473. Monnich began business in Hooper in 1891 and entered real estate in 1897.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
The 1976 history describes the proposed 1954 St. Paul’s–St. John’s merger; the 2026 history identifies Winslow E.U.B. among the congregations that formed Faith United Methodist Church.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
1976, pp. 2 and 6. “Our Town,” by Mrs. Jerry Denslow, reprinted from the Hooper Sentinel, February 15, 1900, describes A. Y. Sutton and his wife settling the future townsite in fall 1866 (p. 2). The historical accounts on p. 6 place the plat in 1871 and incorporation on October 16, 1876.
Cited in Faith United Methodist Church and Spirit of Peace site
“Faith United Methodist Church,” “Hooper Church,” “Bethel United Methodist” and “Winslow E.U.B. Church,” pp. 33–34 (1976).
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
P. 34, “Winslow E.U.B. Church.” Clark Creek origins, the 1925–1926 move to Winslow, the final service on October 6, 1968, and the congregation’s merger with Faith United Methodist Church.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Pp. 154–156, “Conversation Between Mr. and Mrs. Lallman and Betty Hunteman and Jerry Janssen.” Herman Lallman’s recollections of Winslow stores, the hotel, trains and everyday life.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
P. 122. Photograph captioned “High water in Winslow, Nebraska, April 1, 1912.”
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
President George B. Harris’s report, reprinted in The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, October 24, 1908, printed page 1099 (PDF page 53), General Remarks.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Banks and Bankers — Nebraska.” Contemporary banking news concerning Winslow.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Proceedings of April 21, 2021, PDF pp. 3–4. Public discussion of Winslow’s proposed relocation, voluntary property acquisition, affordability and mitigation alternatives.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Paul Hammel, Nebraska Examiner, October 22, 2024. Demolition, residents’ differing plans, infrastructure funding and the unresolved proposal for a new site near Logan View.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
The American Elevator and Grain Trade, vol. XXIV, no. 8, February 15, 1906, p. 438. Contemporary report of applications to the Sioux City–Ashland Development Company for sites along the new route; the list does not assign individual applicants to particular towns.
Cited in Hooper’s Churches: The Congregations Behind the Names
Checked October 13, 2026. Gives the rural congregations’ 1870/1871 founding years, addresses and cooperative ministry since 2000 with independent congregational status. This St. Paul’s is the rural Hooper church, not St. Paul’s of Winslow.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Christina Stella, Nebraska Public Media, April 20, 2020. The March 2019 evacuation, a January 2020 planning meeting and the legal obstacles then facing the relocation proposal.
