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Want to go for a long drive? Grand Island?s fine golf courses are the perfect place to do just that no matter what your skill level. Choose between 9 and 18-hole courses depending on how much time you have for a trip around the links. Most amenties are found at each course. Weekday prices average $7.00 to $10.00 for 9 holes, $11.50 to $15.00 for 18 holes. Weekends & holiday prices average $8.50 to $11.50 for 9 holes, $13.50 to $16.25 for 18 holes. Tee times are recommended.

Grand Island Municipal Golf Course is an 18-hole public course with golf shop, snack bar, driving range and shortgame practice area. Pro - Scott Brunzell, P.O. Box 1968, 2803 North Shady Bend Road, Grand Island, NE 68802. Tee times are recommended. (308) 385-5340.

Indianhead Golf Club is a public course with 18 holes, luxurious clubhouse, pro-shop, driving range, rental carts, snack bar and indoor golf simulator. Pro - Dennis Gavan, 4100 Husker Highway, Grand Island, NE 68803 (308) 381-GOLF (4653).

Fonner View Golf Course offers a 9-hole executive golf course, par 32 with five par-4 holes. The course has well-kept greens and picturesque holes. The natural dips and rolls give the fairways an eye-pleasing contour and provide a challenge. 1,966 yards per 9 holes. Located at 224 Stuhr Road, Grand Island, NE 68801 (308) 382-0202.

Riverside Golf Club is a private 18-hole course, with a proshop and concessions. Members and guests of other private clubs with a PGA professional are welcome. Convention groups by special arrangement, call the Convention and Visitors Bureau at (800) 658-3178. Pro - Dennis Fruchtl, Riverside Golf Shop, Riverside Drive, P.O. Box 975, Grand Island, NE 68802. (308) 382-2648.

Wood River Country Club and Golf Course is a 9-hole course open to the public with a pro shop, clubhouse, rental carts, driving range and swimming pool. Open 7-days a week. Located at 1937 West Holling Road, Wood River 68883. (308) 583-2225.

Centura Hills Golf Club is a 9 hole course open to the public with a clubhouse, rental carts and driving range. Open 7-days a week. Located at 312 Centura Hills Drive, Cairo. (308) 485-4650.

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Liederkranz

National Register of Historic Places

Liederkranz means "a wreath of songs." In 1870, German settlers met to organize a German singing society to provide musical and social entertainment and to cultivate the member'

Grand Island, NE NATIONAL REGISTER

Carnegie Public Library Building

National Register of Historic Places

On April 27, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt broke ground for the construction of a new Grand Island public library. A $20,000

Grand Island, NE NATIONAL REGISTER

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Evangelische Lutherische Dreinenigkeit Kirche - National Register of Historic Places

Plans for the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church were adopted in 1890, but construction did not begin until 1894

Grand Island, NE Historic Churches

Fonner Park

Fonner Park, located in the heart of central Nebraska in southeast Grand Island, operates seven days a week. A "live" thoroughbred-racing season is conducted from mid-February through mid-May while the facility televises nationwide simulcast horse

Grand Island, NE RECREATION

William Stolley Homestead

William Stolley was one of a small band of German immigrants who came to the central Platte Valley of Nebraska Territory in 1857. Stolley filed the first squatter's claim in the county. He helped organize School District 1

Grand Island, NE NATIONAL REGISTER

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