Editing Kilgore, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Kilgore was founded, under the name of Boulware, in 1883 when the [[Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad]] was extended to that point. In 1885, the village was renamed Georgia. Georgia was incorporated in 1893; the name of the settlement was changed in 1904 to Kilgore when the post office objected to the name Georgia, which could be confused with the state of Georgia.<ref name=CASDE>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/cherry/kilgore/ | title=Kilgore, Cherry County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref> The name Kilgore was chosen in honor of a family of pioneer settlers.<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=38| isbn=0803250606 }}</ref>

The village experienced a heyday from the 1900s to the late 1920s. During that era, Kilgore "boasted a post office, a medical doctor, a pharmacist, four general merchandise stores, two hotels, a livery stable, a lumber yard, hardware store, a harness and blacksmith shop, two new car dealerships, a hair dresser, pool hall, barber shop, bulk oil plant, three filling stations, a well driller, a livestock trucker, a full-time railroad depot, and a grain and feed elevator. There were two passenger trains each way each day, a town dray wagon, a small dairy, a meat market, two saloons, and several bootleggers who sold liquor to the Indians. The community also built a brick K-12 schoolhouse in 1929 when the population was over 250."<ref name=CASDE/> But with the decline in railroads, the village's importance declined. Today, Kilgore has fewer than 100 residents.