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History · Guide Rock
Guide Rock’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Guide Rock yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
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What stands out about Guide Rock’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Guide Rock’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Guide Rock’s history is told.
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story How Guide Rock came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Guide Rock.
Read it all → The first settlement at Guide Rock was made in 1870. Guide Rock was platted in 1873. The town was named after Guide Rock, a hill on the opposite bank of the Republican River.
A historical marker near the village marks the former site of a large Pawnee village.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
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What used to stand where something else is now in Guide Rock? → Who remembers Guide Rock in the 1950s? → A family story from old Guide Rock → Does anyone have photos of Guide Rock from the 1990s? →
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