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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Who's Heard of Ives in Dundy County?

Do any of you know the history or existence of a town named IVES in Dundy County? I was looking at a 1895 map of the area and see that there is a little town near the current location of Parks.
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According to an article found in the Nebraska Historic Building Survey, prepared by Mead & Hunt, Inc., a man named Orin Bert Ballard established a general store and post office on his homestead east of the current location of Parks and called it Ives. The name of Parks was chosen when the railroad went through in the mid-1880s and referred to the location as "Parks".

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