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History · Beacon View

Beacon View’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Beacon View. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Beacon View is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. It is in the southwest part of the county, on the east bank of the Platte River. It is bordered to the south, across U.S. Route 6 (US 6), by the CDP of Linoma Beach. US 6 leads northeast 7 miles (11 km) to Gretna and southwest 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to Nebraska. Omaha is 28 miles (45 km) to the northeast. As of the 2020 census, Beacon View had a population of 55. The community was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Half of its homes were built before 1975.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Beacon View yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Beacon View, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Beacon View is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Beacon View has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Camp Ashland Memorial Hall in Clear Creek, 0.4 miles away.

Beacon View and the nearest listed places

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Camp Ashland Memorial HallLinoma BeachBarnes Oil CompanyHoffman BuildingNational Bank of AshlandAshland Public Library

Closest to Beacon View

Camp Ashland Memorial HallClear Creek · Building0.4miLinoma BeachLinoma Beach · District0.7miBarnes Oil CompanyAshland · Commercial Vernacular2.8miHoffman BuildingAshland · Building3.1miNational Bank of AshlandAshland · Site3.1mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Camp Ashland Memorial Hall’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Beacon View?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Beacon View’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

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📜 Ashland📜 Clear Creek📜 Ashland📜 Memphis
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