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A photograph published in 1911 shows a crowd outside J. F. Brandert’s general store in Winslow. People stand close together in front of the storefront. The advertisement calls it a regular Saturday scene. It is a glimpse of a place built around the ordinary work of a country town: buying groceries, selling farm produce, collecting mail and meeting neighbors.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, Al Christianson Collection, Friends of Burlington Northern Railroad; catalog reference US WaBuPNRA D0504b-001-014-001-002-Christianson000368.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Staff Sgt. Koan Nissen, Nebraska National Guard, March 25, 2019. Official caption identifies hay relief for James Palmer at Winslow. Public-domain military photograph.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Staff Sgt. Koan Nissen, Nebraska National Guard, March 25, 2019. Official caption identifies hay relief for James Palmer at Winslow. Public-domain military photograph.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Staff Sgt. Koan Nissen, Nebraska National Guard, March 25, 2019; DVIDS image 5210910. The caption identifies James Palmer and Staff Sgt. Jamie Bartholomew inspecting hay at Winslow. Public-domain official military photograph.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Toeroek Associates, Inc., with Tetra Tech, Inc., for U.S. EPA Region 7. Sections 2.1–2.3 and 5.1 document the former Farmers Coop Mercantile vehicle-maintenance shop and storage use at inspection. Appendix C photographs 1 and 7 (PDF pp. 47 and 50), taken July 18, 2022 by Macy La Masney. Nebraska environmental records: facility 9551, program BF0483, document 135186245; received January 16, 2023.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Toeroek Associates, Inc., with Tetra Tech, Inc., for U.S. EPA Region 7. Sections 2.1, 2.4 and 3.5 identify Smiley’s and its bar use. Appendix C photographs 1, 9 and 26 (PDF pp. 62, 66 and 74), taken July 18, 2022 by Macy La Masney. Nebraska environmental records: facility 119864, program BF0486, document 135186130; received January 16, 2023.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Undated photograph on a postcard postmarked Winslow, July 8, 190[final digit unclear]. Original offered by Old Post Office Postcard Company, eBay item 147093653686; front and reverse inspected.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Photograph by Ammodramus, October 28, 2012, showing the community center and Smiley’s before the 2019 flood. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Photograph by Ammodramus, October 28, 2012, showing the volunteer fire department at right. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Mary M. Darnell, two-page village history, digitized by University of Nebraska–Lincoln Historical Nebraska. District 85’s formation in 1908, closure in 1977, and the Williams family’s conversion of the school to a home; undated street view and downtown photograph dated 1987.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Emma Krab, Nebraska Public Media, July 27, 2023. Property buyouts, two completed house burns, planned removals and the financial and community disagreements delaying relocation.
Cited in Hooper’s Churches: The Congregations Behind the Names
Centennial History of Hooper, 1876–1976, pp. 33–34. Depot worship, church and parsonage, flood damage and congregational unions.
Cited in Hooper’s Legion, VFW and a Century of Service
November 18, 1981, p. 1, column 5. Advance notice of a veterans-benefits meeting sponsored by Winslow Post10535.
In “A continuing connection with the countryside”
A recent postal record connects Hooper with neighboring Winslow. A February 2025 USPS bulletin formally discontinued the Winslow post office, effective January 25, 2025, and listed Winslow as a place name under Hooper. It retained the Winslow ZIP Code, 68072, and instructed customers to continue using “Winslow, NE 68072” in their addresses. The bulletin distinguishes that administrative action from the earlier service suspension dated March 18, 2019.
