Kingston Cemetery

Kingston had one turn as a contender. When Adams County first voted on its seat, on December 12, 1871, at Titus Babcock's house in Juniata, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine ballots went to Juniata and one to Kingston, a homestead near the Little Blue where settlers hoped for a town. Judge W. R. Burton's 1916 county history says it never grew past a general store. Kingston still drew the county's first fair, held on the Blue on October 10 and 11, 1873, and the Blue Valley Grange organized there in February 1874.

What the plaque says

Kingston Cemetery The Kingston Cemetery is located on the hill just west of this marker. Founded in the early 1870s, the cemetery was the final resting place for nearly thirty of Kingston's early settlers. In 1887 the Kingston settlement was moved to the rail junction and renamed Pauline. The cemetery was later abandoned. Just northeast of this marker is the site where John C. Fremont's party camped on June 25, 1842, while mapping the route known as the Oregon Trail. Pauline Centennial Committee Nebraska State Historical Society

Where it stands

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