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Brookside Farm


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Brookside Farm The Brookside farm (also known as the Gridley-Howe-Faden-Atkins Farmstead), illustrates an historically typical farmstead evolution in Nebraska. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the farmstead is a rare, well preserved collection of buildings and structures which reflect changes in agriculture from timber claim to twentieth century technology and small scale farm diversification.


Address: 1 mi. N of jct. of NE 71 and State St.

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Kimball City Office Building

Kimball, NE Historic Buildings

Wind Farm

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Kimball, NE Structural Landmarks

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Kimball, NE Monuments

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Brookside Farm