Pleasant Hill

The county seat left Pleasant Hill on wagons. Andreas's 1882 history says the town won it in a June 3, 1871 election over Crete and Dorchester, after a May vote gave no place a majority. In 1874 the jail burned with four prisoners inside, among them a woman awaiting a second trial on a charge of poisoning her husband. When Wilber beat Crete on November 6, 1877, amid ballot buying, a cry of fraud and a recount, Wilber men and the commissioners loaded the county seat onto wagons and were gone before an injunction could be served.

What the plaque says

Pleasant Hill The village of Pleasant Hill once stood in the valley to the east. Founded in 1867, it became a thriving community with several businesses, including a general store, post office, sawmill, and gristmill. From 1871 to 1878 Pleasant Hill was the Saline County seat. Peak population was 246 in 1900. Fires, loss of the county seat to Wilber, and the lack of a railroad led to the town's decline. After the gristmill burned in 1930, Pleasant Hill faded away. BSA Troop 212 The Warren Cerny Family Nebraska State Historical Society, 2009

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Homestead National Historical Park — 25 mi
  Daniel Freeman's claim on Cub Creek near Beatrice, one of the first filed under the Homestead Act, with a one-room school, a homesteader's cabin, restored prairie and the land's earlier owners.
• Nebraska State Capitol — 26 mi
  Bertram Goodhue's 400-foot tower on the prairie, built in four phases from 1922 to 1932 and paid off on completion, home of the only one-house legislature in the country.

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