History on Wheels
Southwest Hastings
Below are images that accompany the tour. They are sorted by topic.
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- Armory Fire, February 26, 1934
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- Armory Fire, February 26, 1934
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- Southwest Hastings -Kolb, Merkel, and Frank Settlement
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- Southeast Hastings-Norka Settlement
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- The Hoffman Garden in the Hastings Tribune
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- John Wacker
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- Anna Wacker
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- First Ward School
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- Herbst Grocery Ad
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- Herbst Grocery Ad for Nash Coffee
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- Private George Bauer’s Obit
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- Grace Reform Church in 1972
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- John Wacker
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- Anna Wacker
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- Timberlock Advertisement-March 12, 1963
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- Timberlock Advertisement-March 3, 1959
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- Timberlock Advertisement-July 11, 1949
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- Timberlock Advertisement-April 29, 1950
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- Timberlock Truck Body
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- Great Plains Containers Advertisement March 4, 1958
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- Great Plains Containers Advertisement March 16, 1961
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- Great Plains Containers Advertisement March 3, 1959
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- Aerial of Brickyard Park
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- Employees of Western Brick and Supply
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- Employees of Western Brick and Supply, brick factory in the distance
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- Oliver M Magner & Mae in front of 148 Laird
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- Oliver M Magner
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- Chautauqua Park in 1920 being used as a tourist camp ground.
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- Crowds at Hastings Chautauqua
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- Ludwig F.C. Hansen
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- Picture of Ludwig F.C. Hansen’s Home
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- Hugo Polenske
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- Klose & Polenske Advertisement, April 2, 1897
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- Hugo Polenke’s WWI Registration Card
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- This first Framed home in Hastings.
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- Joseph K. Knapp Sr.’s 1942 Draft Card-Back
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- Joseph K. Knapp Sr.’s 1942 Draft Card-Front
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- Joseph K. Knapp Sr.’s 1917 Draft Card
Thank you to the Adams County Historical Society and Elizabeth Spilinek for assistance with photos. This tour would also not have been possible without Adams County the Story: 1872-1972, written by Dorthy Weyer Creigh and Adams County Nebraska Historical Buildings Survey, (1999) prepared by Mead Hunt.