In that year, construction began in Omaha on the transcontinental railroad. Army, a ferry across the Loup was installed contemporary documents suggest that the Mitchell company had failed to act on its right to operate such a ferry. In that same year, at the recommendation of the U.S. It became the county seat shortly thereafter. In 1858, the Platte County Commissioners passed an act of incorporation making Columbus a town Īt this time there were 16 citizens. However, in 1857, the Pawnee signed a treaty whereunder they gave up the bulk of their Nebraska lands, save for a reservation on what is now Nance County, Nebraska.
: 27–28Īt the time of its initial settling, the land Columbus occupied still belonged to the Pawnee. The two companies consolidated in November 1856. In 1855, Mitchell had obtained from the First Nebraska Territorial Legislature the right to operate a ferry across the Loup River. Mitchell, had laid out the townsite of Pawnee. Just west of the Columbus site, the Elk Horn and Loup Fork Bridge and Ferry Company, headed by James C. The townsite was selected for its location on the proposed route of the transcontinental railroad. The group took its name from Columbus, Ohio, where most of the settlers had originally lived.
The site of Columbus was settled by the Columbus Town Company on May 28, 1856. Settlement and early history Columbus, seen from an airplane, looking south In the absence of a ferry or a bridge, most of these followed the Loup for a considerable distance upstream before attempting a crossing: the first major wave of Mormon emigrants, for instance, continued up that river to a point about three miles downstream from present-day Fullerton. įor travellers following the north bank of the Platte, the Loup River, with its soft banks and quicksands, represented a major obstacle. In the 19th century, the " Great Platte River Road"-the valley of the Platte and North Platte Rivers running from Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie- was the principal route of the westward expansion. In 1739, the French traders Pierre and Paul Mallet stayed at the Pani-Maha village near this site while making the first known French voyage to Spanish-ruled Santa Fe. In 1720, Pawnee and Otoe allied with the French massacred the Spanish force led by Pedro de Villasur just south of the present site of Columbus. The Otoe had moved from central Iowa into the lower Platte Valley in the early 18th century Īnd the closely related Omaha and Ponca had moved from the vicinity of the Ohio River mouth, settling along the Missouri by the mid-18th century. The Pawnee are thought to have descended from the Protohistoric Lower Loup Culture
In the 18th century, the area around the confluence of the Platte and the Loup Rivers was used by a variety of Native American tribes, including Pawnee, Otoe, Ponca, and Omaha. History Native Americans and Exploration The sun sets in Columbus along 23rd Street. The population was 24,028 at the 2020 census, making it the 10th largest city in Nebraska. Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Platte County, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.
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