Editing Overton, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Overton got its start following construction of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] through the territory.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/dawson/overton/ | title=Overton, Dawson County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 4, 2014}}</ref> The town was first settled in 1873.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=107}}</ref>

A group of African Canadian families from [[Elgin, Ontario]] began moving near Overton in 1879. Over the course of five years, members of the Robinson, Guilds, Green, Emanuel, Riley, Hatter, Meehan, Small, and Walker families relocated to Nebraska, filing homestead petitions and starting farms. Many of these families left Dawson County by 1907 to move to [[DeWitty, Nebraska|DeWitty]] in Cherry County.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/people/charles-and-hester-meehan.htm "Charles and Hester Meehan,"] National Park Service. Retrieved January 3, 2023.</ref>

The [[Plectron]] company, which manufactured alert radio receivers used by fire departments, was started in Overton in 1955; it transferred operations to [[Lexington, Nebraska|Lexington]] in the 1980s<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wallaceradio.com/plectronhistory.html|title=WallaceRadio, LLC}}</ref>