Editing Beemer, Nebraska (section)

===Forming a village===

In 1885, [[Allen D. Beemer]], George Canfield, and K.C. Morehouse laid out lots to the north of the Rock Creek water stop and [[plat]]ted a village to be known as Rock Creek, as filed in the county seat of West Point on May 26, 1885.  Mr. Beemer built the first rail depot building, and led the drive to build a wooden bridge across the Elkhorn.  His efforts on behalf of the area were rewarded in 1886, when Congressman [[Edward K. Valentine]] secured a post office for the settlement, naming it the Beemer Post Office.  On July 15, 1886, in response to a petition of 54 residents, a village named Beemer was incorporated with Harry Delmont, W.D. Gibbon, John M. Barber, F.J. Fitzgerald, and Niels Hansen the village trustees.  In that year Mr. Beemer founded a newspaper, the ''[[Beemer Times]]''; and the rail company changed the name of the station from Rock Creek to Beemer, although its telegraph call signs remained "R C" (for "Rock Creek") until the depot closed in 1963.<ref name=somehistory />