Scenic Highway 2, Western Nebraska

After our stop in Ellsworth at the 1898 built company store, we went east on Highway 2.

The unincorporated town of Ashby.

The town (or village) of Hyannis, population 165 in 2020.  

It became a town in 1888, named after a town in Massachusetts.

Chuck Hayword, a motion picture stuntman who doubled for many western and action stars, is from this little town.

At Broken Bow, we found a DQ and stopped.  We had our picnic lunch with us and ate it outside and then of course, had to get a dip cone too!

At Whitman, we took a little stop to check out a little cemetary behind this church.

We drove up a little hill.

From the top of the hill, looking down over the town.

These people were Irish, Scot and German immigrants.

Life was hard back in the prairie days.  Loss of many little ones.  If we wouldn't keep the eternal perspective of our lives, we would despair.

Someone made a new headstone for these little babies.  

“Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.”  Psalm 90:12

We read a sign that there was a church who adopted this part of the highway for litter cleanup.  There was NO litter.  It was very clean!  Either good job, church for your work, or good job travellers for not throwing trash out your windows!

We passed the little town of Thedford and was surprised to see 2 electric charging stations right on Main Street.  Here is an old county jail on Main Street.

We took Highway 2 to Ansley and then turned south.  To be continued next post.