Editing Hartington, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Hartington was [[plat]]ted in 1883, as a [[water stop]] on the railroad.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/cedar/hartington/ | title=Hartington, Cedar County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=1 August 2014}}</ref> It was named for [[Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire|Lord Hartington]], who had then recently paid a visit to the U.S.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 | pages=34| isbn=0803250606 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA159|year=1908|page=159}}</ref>

===Historic buildings===
[[File:Hartington Hotel from SE 2.JPG|thumb|left|The historic Hartington Hotel is among the local buildings included on the National Register of Historic Places.]]Hartington includes a number of historic buildings. These include three brick structures on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the [[Prairie School]] [[Hartington City Hall and Auditorium]] (1921-1923), the [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] Cedar County Courthouse (1890-1891), and the [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]] Hartington Hotel (1917).<ref name="Nebraska Historical">{{cite web |url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/cedar.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000407215645/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/cedar.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 7, 2000 |title=Nebraska National Register Sites in Cedar County |publisher=Nebraska State Historical Society |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |access-date=2011-06-23 }}</ref>