Editing Neligh, Nebraska (section)

==History==
In 1872, John D. Neligh and a few of his friends took a trip up the [[Elkhorn River]] from [[West Point, Nebraska]].  Neligh took note of the scenic landscape and thought it would be the ideal setting for a town and the county seat.  He immediately left for [[Omaha]] to buy 520 acres for the town site.  Misunderstanding the prime land he was selling, Omaha banker [[Herman Kountze]] sold the land required to develop Neligh. He was apparently not aware it would make the ideal county seat, which Neligh eventually became. The records were moved to Neligh on January 1, 1884.<ref>(1888) [https://web.archive.org/web/20030508234919/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/antelope/antelope-p3.html "Antelope County."] ''Andreas' History of Nebraska.'' Retrieved 7/1/07.</ref> Neligh was platted in 1873 by John Neligh and others, and named for him.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC&pg=PA15 | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 | pages=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=96}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_lKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA11 | title=History of the Origin of the Place Names in Nine Northwestern States | year=1908 | pages=11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.antelopecountymuseum.org/neligh.html|title=NELIGH|website=Antelope County Museum}}</ref>

=== White Buffalo Girl ===
In May 1877, the [[Ponca]] tribe was forced to leave their homeland on the [[Niobrara River]] and move to [[Indian Territory]] in present-day [[Oklahoma]].  The rigors of the journey and resettlement led to the death of one-third of the tribe's population.  During the migration, an 18-month-old girl named White Buffalo Girl died near Neligh. Her father, Black Elk, asked the townspeople "to respect the grave of my child just as they do the graves of their own dead".  She was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh, and her grave tended by the residents; in 1960, owing to the deterioration of the monument, the marker was set on a new foundation.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061115223903/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/white_buffalo_girl.htm "White Buffalo Girl"]}}.  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society.]}}  Retrieved 2016-02-09.</ref>

=== Neligh Mill ===
Shortly after founding the town, John D. Neligh began building the [[Neligh Mill]] in the southern part of town.  The original two-story mill was built with bricks made by John J. Crawford, using local clay.<ref name="kancoll.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/antelope/antelope-p3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030508234919/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/antelope/antelope-p3.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2003-05-08|title=Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska - Antelope Co. Part 3|website=www.kancoll.org}}</ref>  Currently, the Neligh Mill is a Nebraska State Historical site.