About Eddyville
Eddyville is a village in Dawson County, in central Nebraska. It covers about 0.28 square miles. The 2020 census counted 88 residents. The village is part of the Lexington micropolitan statistical area. Children here attend the Sumner-Eddyville-Miller schools.
History
Settlers took up homesteads in the Wood River valley in the 1880s. When the Kearney and Black Hills Railway was built up the valley, a station was needed, and the railroad platted the town site. The new station was named after Eddyville, Iowa. The post office was moved and took the Eddyville name on 12 November 1890. Eddyville became a shipping point on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Later years
The depot handled produce, mail and passengers, and for years it was the centre of village business. Eddyville reached its largest recorded population, about 250, around 1910, then declined as farming mechanised. In 1964 the school district merged with Sumner and Miller. Elementary pupils stayed in Eddyville and older students went to Sumner.
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Eddyville is a village in Dawson County, Nebraska, founded in 1890 when the Kearney & Black Hills Railway built a station at the site and the post office — previously located at a place called Congdon — relocated and took the new name that November. The town was named after Eddyville, Iowa, whose own name honors J. P. Eddy, an early trading-post operator there, making Eddyville, Nebraska's name a double remove from its ultimate namesake. The surrounding Wood River Valley was farmed by Native American groups for roughly three centuries before a severe drought around 1425 forced their relocation; their earth-lodge building techniques are thought to have influenced later pioneer sod-house construction in the area. Eddyville survived a brutal winter storm in 1915 that dropped more than 49 inches of snow and stranded trains for nearly a week. In 1964, the town's school district consolidated with neighboring Sumner and Miller to form the Sumner-Eddyville-Miller district, which still serves the community today. With a population of 88 (2020 census), down from a peak of roughly 250 around 1910, Eddyville sits along Nebraska Highway 40.
Eddyville was founded in 1890 as a Kearney & Black Hills Railway station, named after Eddyville, Iowa. It survived a brutal 1915 blizzard that stranded trains for nearly a week, and its school district merged with Sumner and Miller in 1964. Population was 88 in 2020, down from a peak of about 250.