Fairbury Nebraska

Located in Southeastern Nebraska. Perfect for day trips and vacations. Located at the crossroads of Highway 15 & Highway 136.
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Fairbury, NE
Updated Friday, September 03, 2010 6:30 PM
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Do you have a special event to add?                                            
Having a garage sale? Community event?                                   
Church event? Organizational event?                                          
All Jefferson County Ne. events are advertised here for free!
Just send the information to shopfairbury@neb.rr.com          
 
Fairbury School Schedule:
August 30: No School Pre K - 6 : Planning Day
August 31: School Pictures
 

September 18-19: Steele City Ne. Flea Market

 

 
Fairbury City Museum 1128 Elm St.

Open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 1pm-4pm

Stop and take a look, lots of interesting local items.

 

Fairbury Nebraska City Pool is now OPEN Details here

 

                Farmer's Market
Thursday night, 5:00 p.m. Southside of the Courthouse, Downtown Square
Saturday mornings, 8:30 a.m. East Entrance to City Park 
 

On going eventsJefferson Community Health Center  

 

   Church Events - Contact your church for summer Bible School schedule

 

Fairbury, Nebraska area has much to explore. You will find

camping, fishing, unique stores and lots of history.

Fairbury even had a circus that wintered here.

At the crossroads of Highways 15 & 136 in southeast Ne.

 

Fairbury, Nebraska is a short distance from the Kansas border.

An easy day or weekend trip for both Kansas and Nebraska residents.

 

The Oregon Trail and Pony Express routes were in the area.

Explore our site to learn more!

 

There are links to a variety of information.

Jefferson County History, events, local businesses and services.

Even Nebraska websites and general fun stuff we

have found on the web.

Explore our website then explore Fairbury, Nebraska.

 

Visit our new Area Pictures Page for more photos.

             

Area Parks and Recreation

   

Fairbury Ne Chamber of Commerce

Current activites

  

Jefferson County Government 

 

Jefferson County Nebraska History

 

Museum Guide

 

Nebraska Game & Parks

includes Hunting and Fishing permits

 

Nebraska Workforce Development

 

Oregon Trail

 

Pony Express Nebraska Auto Route

 

Rock Island Depot Museum

 

Backyard Farmer                            

                          


 

 We have a new Squidoo Lens! Check us out!

             

Have a question about the Fairbury Ne. area or this website? Just ask.

 

Custom plant stands - arches

Metal lawn ornaments

Have your own design idea?

Give me a call at 402-300-1081.

 

Fairbury Nebraska Information has business and services listings for the area. Also local history, pictures, and interesting websites from around the globe.

Explore all the pages. You may learn a bit along the way.

The underlined phrasess you encounter are clickable links to individual websites.

 

History of Fairbury, Nebraska

James B. Mattingly, a frontiersman and freighter from Kentucky, first settled in Gage County, Nebraska. He saw the future of settlers and the possiblity of a railroad being routed along the Little Blue River, he settled down and built a small saw mill along the banks of the Little Blue to take advantage of the town site opportunities.

 

Woodford G. McDowell, a capitalist from Fairbury, Illinois also saw the advantages of a railroad coming through the area and came to claim 160 acres. Each gave 80 acres of land for a town site, the north and south streets from First to Eighth, and the east and west streets from A to H streets.

 In the middle they left a block for the Public Square, (current site of the Jefferson county courthouse) half on Mattingly's land and half on McDowell's. In 1869 they chose McDowell's Illinois town of Fairbury for a name for the city of Fairbury, Nebraska.

 

Current Events &  Updated Information

        

                   Full Monarch Butterfly Slideshow

 

Fairbury Journal News 

 

Koln-Kgin TV  --Live Feed to current news!

 

Beatrice Daily Sun

 

Fairbury Ne Schools

 

Fairbury Ne. Library

 

City of Fairbury Ne.

 

Church List Fairbury Nebraska

 

Time Warner Cable TV Listings 

 

 

                                                                                                                        

 

                                                                    

                                     

 

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