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History · Loomis
Loomis’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Loomis yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
0 old photos & papers
1 historic places
3 famous people
What stands out about Loomis’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 Loomis’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Loomis’s history is told.
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How Loomis came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Loomis.
Read it all → Loomis was organized in 1885. In 1886, Loomis was officially named, and a post office, bank, school, and church were built. It was named for Nelson Henry Loomis, a railroad official. The majority of early settlers were immigrants from Sweden and arrived to the area from 1876-80. On November 20, 1914, there was a large fire in Loomis and nine businesses were burnt to the ground.
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Loomis, decade by decade On the National Register 1 historic place in Loomis The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2013
Farmers State Bank
in Nebraska
#107
by listings
All 1 listings National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people 3 famous people were born in Loomis Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Loomis? → Who remembers Loomis in the 1950s? → A family story from old Loomis → Does anyone have photos of Loomis from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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