Eddyville in 1892

Another 1892 account described Eddyville as a village of about one hundred and fifty people located on the Kearney and Black Hills Railroad in the Wood River Valley, near the northern border of Dawson County.

The same article listed the town’s stores, school, church under construction, cereal mill, waterworks, hotel, and restaurant. It described the surrounding Wood River Valley as a strip of land lying along both sides of Wood River, about forty miles long and one to five miles wide, bordered by rolling prairie.

The soil was described as black loam, three to six feet deep, capable of producing crops in abundance. The promotional language named wheat, oats, corn, hay, potatoes, and vegetables, and stated that land in the area could be purchased from eight to twenty-five dollars per acre depending on location and improvements.

Our Town · Dolores McFarland · 2000