Valentine’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Valentine. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Valentine was founded in 1882. The Valentine post office was established on December 4, 1882. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad was extended to that point and train service began on April 1, 1883. It was named for Edward K. Valentine, a Nebraska representative.
As late as 1967, Valentine was split between two time zones. According to a news report, "The mountain and central time zones meet at the center of Main Street, so an hour separates the two curb lines." According to the report, when clocks were required to be set back one hour for daylight saving time, Valentine's post office (which was in the central zone) split the difference and turned back its clock by half an hour.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Valentine’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Valentine’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBird's eye view of Valentine, Neb…, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Valentine
See all 2 →Valentine, decade by decade
1990s
5 historic places in Valentine
5 places in Valentine are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Listed 1982F. M. Walcott House
Listed 1984Valentine Public School
Listed 1990Cherry County Courthouse
Listed 1991US Post Office-Valentine
Listed 1992Borman BridgeThen & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Bird's eye view of Valentine, Neb. & Minnekadusa Lake (1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.