About Henry
Henry is a village in Scotts Bluff County at the western edge of Nebraska, with the Wyoming state line as its own western boundary. U.S. Highway 26 runs through it south-east to north-west, and Holloway Road leads south to Lyman. The 2020 census counted 125 residents on about 0.31 square miles, at an elevation near 4,036 feet. Henry keeps Mountain time and is part of the Scottsbluff micropolitan area.
History
The town began when Yorick Nichols and his wife offered the Lincoln Land Company half of their townsite during the railroad's push up the Platte valley. Stations were being laid out every eight to ten miles, close enough for horse-drawn hauling. A boxcar hauled in from Pratt, Wyoming served as the first depot. The name honours the Nichols family's son Henry, who had died in a swimming accident.
Cattle and turkeys
Shipping livestock built the town early on, since cattle could be moved more cheaply from the Nebraska side of the line than from Wyoming. The Swann Land and Cattle Company sent 7,000 head out of the new town. In 1916 growers organised the North Platte Valley Cooperative Turkey Marketing association, which by the 1930s handled about 200,000 dollars of business a year. In 1939 alone it shipped 33 carloads of dressed turkeys east.
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Henry was established in 1909 with the expansion of railroad service into the area, and is named for Henry Nichols, the son of the original townsite owner.
A small village of 125 residents (2020), Henry's western boundary directly borders Wyoming, and U.S. Route 26 runs through the community.
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