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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, which is also called "Evergreen," 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.
5. Immanuel Lutheran school marker. Located in an area where many Germans settled over 100 years ago. 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. Contact: Leland Holle, 785-337-2569.
6. Bremen School. This former one-room public school is
now a community center. At 2nd and Granite Roads Contact: Leland Holle, 785-337-2569.
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. Contact: Leland Holle, 785-337-2569.
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. Contact: Leland Holle, 785-337-2569.
Oketo & environs – Attractions 10-17 -- 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. Oketo 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. |
