Editing Arthur, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Arthur was founded in 1913 to be the seat of Arthur County, then just organizing.<ref name="CALMIT">{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/arthur/arthur/ | title=Arthur, Arthur County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=July 29, 2014 | archive-date=August 30, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830133134/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/arthur/arthur/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The town and county were both named for President [[Chester A. Arthur]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27241 | title=Profile for Arthur, Nebraska | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=July 29, 2014}}</ref> Arthur was incorporated as a village in 1944.<ref name="CALMIT" />  The first county office was a covered wagon, with a one-room courthouse being built in 1915.  A year before that, in the Spring, a general store was constructed, and afterward a newspaper, the first church and the post office were established. A one-room high school was also built in 1914, expanding to two rooms in 1920.  In 1916 the Arthur State Bank was founded.  Into the 1920s, Arthur continued to be built. The town got electricity in 1926, though most of the county would not have it until the early 1950s.

Then in 1932, the [[Great Depression]] struck Arthur, closing its bank, which was not replaced until 1939 with the Arthur County Co-op Credit Association.  Following WWII, in 1950 construction of a new, large and modern highschool was completed.  A new courthouse was built in 1960-1961.  In 1980, the census population was 125.

===Historic sites===
Two sites in Arthur are listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]].  The [[Pilgrim Holiness Church (Arthur, Nebraska)|Pilgrim Holiness Church]] was built in 1928 out of straw bales, in response to the region's dearth of trees or construction sod.<ref>Spencer, Janet Jeffries and D. Murphy (1979).  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110609102922/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/arthur/AT01-001_Baled_Hay_Church.pdf "National Register of Historic Places Inventory&ndash;Nomination Form: Pilgrim Holiness Church"]}}  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society.]}}  Retrieved August 10, 2010.</ref>  The [[First Arthur County Courthouse and Jail]] complex was built in 1914-15; the courthouse is billed as the smallest ever built in the United States.<ref>Long, Barbara Beving.  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110609103405/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/arthur/AT01-004_1stArthurCo_Cthse.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: First Arthur County Courthouse and Jail.]}}  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society.]}}  Retrieved August 30, 2010.</ref>  Both sites are now maintained by the Arthur County Historical Society.