Tracy Valley Nebraska

Former community · Platte County · settled 1871

About Tracy Valley

Tracy Valley is a former rural settlement near Humphrey in northern Platte County. Its church met in Granville Township, and the Tracy Valley Cemetery is in Humphrey Township, 1 mile east and 1½ miles north of Club 81 near Humphrey, according to the county cemetery list. No town remains.

History

According to a letter by Mrs. L. B. Leach printed in the Humphrey Democrat in 1903, the settlement of Tracy Valley began in the spring of 1871. The first settlers named were E. T. Graham, E. L. McGehee, the three Alderson brothers (William, Adam and J. M.) and T. E. and L. C. La Barre; Graham later moved on to Creston. Local tradition says the valley was named for a man named Tracy from the nearby village of Madison, who threw his boots across a swollen creek and waded over.

The First Presbyterian Church of Tracy Valley elected its trustees, L. C. La Barre, L. B. Leach and Walter Mead, at a meeting in the District No. 19 schoolhouse on December 26, 1875. The Humphrey post office, established on August 28, 1871, with Nancy D. Leach as postmistress, began on R. N. Leach’s place and was later moved to Walter Mead’s farm in Tracy Valley.

Things to see

Tracy Valley Cemetery, 1 mile east and 1½ miles north of Club 81 near Humphrey · Humphrey, the nearest town