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We would like to provide the residents of  Holdrege  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Holdrege Home page. The Holdrege Home page provides as much information as possible on Holdrege. Knowing Holdrege’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Holdrege’s Home page, you will also find Holdrege’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Holdrege has a population of 5406. 48.1% of Holdrege’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.9 are female. 55.5% of Holdrege is married and 67.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $126,713, and the average rent is $654. Household median income in Holdrege is $53,241, and the individual median income is $29,970. Holdrege’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.3%), Hispanic(8.7%), Multiple(5.1%), Native(1.5%), Other(0.8%), Asian(0.3%).


Holdrege was established in 1883 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for George W. Holdrege, a railroad official. Holdrege was designated county seat in 1884.Holdrege was settled primarily by immigrants from Sweden in the 1880s and was named after George W. Holdrege, general manager of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Company.


He constructed most of the line's mileage in Nebraska, including a section through this small settlement in Phelps County. On December 10, 1883, the first train arrived in Holdrege, a little pioneer town inhabited by 200 people. In 1884, a campaign was started to move the county seat from Phelps Center to Holdrege, and an election was scheduled for October.


By that time, the town had acquired a block of ground on which to erect a courthouse. With calm assurance of victory at the polls, Holdrege laid the cornerstone of the building intended to be the Phelps County Courthouse. At the special election, Holdrege received a majority of the votes but the legality of the election was questioned.


So citizens of Holdrege went to Phelps Center, picked up the official records and books and hid them for two months pending the arrival of new county officials who would take over on January 1, 1885. Holdrege succeeded in becoming the county seat and the courthouse was completed. Holdrege was incorporated on February 14, 1884, and quickly became the metropolis of the county, being well located with good roads from all directions.


The early history of the town was one of ups and downs—good crops one year then drought and no crops at all for several years. In 1910, C. W. McConaughy, a Holdrege grain dealer, began crusading for use of the Platte River to supplement subsoil moisture for farmlands in the area. His dream became reality when Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District began its power production and irrigation operations and water flowed into Phelps County for irrigation in 1941. A large increase in the population of Holdrege in the immediate post-war years was due mostly to irrigation.


With irrigation came both stable and increased crop production, which brought a pipeline company, grain elevators, and agriculture-related businesses to town. The city was declared a first-class city on May 4, 1967.


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