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 1. Rowe house and round barn – pre-cut buildings ordered from Sears Roebuck in 1914. Private property. On Osage Road east of 6th Road.

2. Danish Lutheran Church and Cemetery. Organized in the 1870s. The present building was used from 1879 until 1955. In the cemetery, unusual decorative grave markers crafted in iron by early blacksmith Hans Hanson. On 3rd Road between Limestone and Matador Roads.

3. Trails Junction. Two branches of the Oregon Trail converged at a spot near the present-day Marshall and Washington County line. A traveler in 1850 wrote that at the trails junction, “the road was as far as the eye could see over the plains crowded thick with wagons.” On 1st and Indian Roads, 2 mi north of U.S. 36.

4. Oregon Trail marker. Erected in 1935, with a celebration coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the nearby town of Bremen. On Harvest Road ¾ mile west of 1st Road, in Washington County.

“Little Germany” – name given to this part of the county because of the large number of Germans who settled here. Contact for attractions 5, 6, 7, and 9: Leland Holle, 785-337-2569.

5. Immanuel Lutheran school marker. The so-called “South School” here as well as a “North School” were established in 1888 when the original Immanuel Lutheran parochial school became too crowded. Some teaching in these schools was in German as late as the 1940s. On Harvest Road ½ mi east of 2nd Road.

6. Bremen School. This former one-room public school is now a community center. At 2nd and Granite Roads.

7. Hollenberg Pony Express Station. The station house (1857) is now part of a 7-acre state park. OpenWed. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sun. 1 - 5 p.m. 785-337-2635. In Washington County 4 miles north of U.S. 36 and K-148 and 1/4 mile east on K-243.  Or, from Marshall-Washington County line at Granite Road go 2 miles west on 23rd Road.

8. Hermansberg Immanuel Lutheran Church. Built by German settlers in 1901, this is the largest of several Lutheran church buildings in this area. On 3rd Road north of Eagle Road.

9. Stateline Lutheran Church. The church here was organized in 1883. The present building was constructed in 1904. The steeple is lighted at night year-round. Located ¼ mile west of Hwy 77 at the Nebraska line.

Oketo – Local contact Kent Obermeyer, 785-744-3497

10. Oketo Museum, in the Z. H. Moore store. This 1884 building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum has Otoe Indian artifacts, early telephone equipment, and replicas of a barbershop and a general store.

11. Oketo State Bank Building, dating from the early 1900’s, now part of the Oketo Museum. The bank was established in 1889 by Z. H. Moore.

12. Oketo City Hall was called the “Opera House” when it was first built in 1900. Traveling stock companies produced plays here for winter entertainment. Now used as a community center.

13. Jail. Built in 1895, and equipped with rings in the floor for chaining prisoners.

14. Moore house, 1904. General store and quarry owner Z. H. Moore and his wife Lavinia could not agree on whether to build a stone or frame house, so the first story is limestone and the second is frame with shingle siding.

15. Oketo Cut-off. A shortcut used for several months in 1862-63 after the owner of the Overland Stage line had a falling-out with Marysville and decided his stagecoaches would bypass that town altogether. Just south of the marker is the grave of Louis Tibbets, who died in June 1861. On 12th road .3 mi south of Cherokee Road.

16. Oketo stage line marker. On Cherokee Road just west of 11th Road.

17. Redtop/Scully School. “Scully” was the name of a wealthy Irish family which owned and rented out thousands of acres in Marshall County and elsewhere in the Midwest. This building was used from 1898 until 1953. At 14th and Cherokee Roads.