Editing Tilden, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Tilden was originally called "Burnett", under which name it was laid out by the railroad in 1880.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofantelop00leac#page/156/mode/2up | title=A history of Antelope County, Nebraska from its first settlement in 1868 to the close of the year 1883 | publisher=R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company | author=Leach, A.J. | year=1909 | pages=156}}</ref> It was incorporated as Burnett in 1885, but the U.S. Post Office officially changed the name of the village in 1887, after presidential candidate [[Samuel J. Tilden]], to avoid confusion with [[Bennet, Nebraska]].<ref>[http://www.ci.tilden.ne.us/ Welcome to Tilden, Nebraska<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Tilden was incorporated as a city in 1919.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/antelope/tilden/ | title=Tilden, Antelope County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=2014-07-29}}</ref>