Editing McGrew, Nebraska (section)

==History==
McGrew was incorporated as a village in 1911 when the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/scottsbluff/mcgrew/ | title=McGrew, Scotts Bluff County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=August 23, 2014}}</ref> By 1912, it was home to a Presbyterian church, which ran services until 1971. McGrew boomed in the 1920s; at that time, businesses included several stores, a post office, a railway depot and grain elevator, a saloon, an industrial yard, agricultural buildings, and a hotel. The church was purchased by the Platte Valley Bible College and renamed the McGrew Community Church, and again renamed the Oregon Trail Chapel in 1986. A school was added in 1920. The post office shut down in 1986. Today, very few buildings are still in use and most are abandoned.<ref name="speck2024">{{cite book |last1=Speck |first1=Gary B |title=Ghost Towns: America's Abandoned Sites and Settlements |date=2024 |publisher=Publishers International |location=Morton Grove, IL |isbn=978-1-63938-623-9 |pages=110–111 |chapter=The Midwestern States}}</ref>