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As we start on our third century this week.  The first installment of that history begins.)  July 8, 1976\nTo try to visualize the world 200 years ahead staggers the imagination.  To try to think back 200 years and move along with progress from that time to the present is truly awesome.  The survival of the settlers through those early years, through times of extreme perils, hardships, illnesses and losses is a glowing example of faith, courage and determination.\nThrough the efforts of these homesteading pioneers, villages and towns were built, and the prairies were converted into productive farms.  Our own village of Sterling was founded by such courageous and determined settlers and grew as the result of their hopes and efforts.\nDuring the earliest years of pioneering, the trend was to settle and build towns along the larger streams, and to farm the land in the surrounding valleys.  In this area, settlements were founded first along the Big Nemaha River, and the Yankee Creek.\nState and county records show that around 1856 one of the more important westward trails was the Brownville-Beatrice Trail.  This trail crossed Johnson County – east to west – directly through Sterling area, and joined the Oregon Trail in Jefferson County.\nOther trails from Brownville west and from Kansas to the salt flats in Lancaster County, crossed near Sterling.  These trails served as a supply line and later as a freighting line for shipping farm products out of the area.\nThe first white settler to come to what is now Sterling, was John Bentz.  He came from New York State in 1857, with his wife Rachel.  Records show that they settled as “squatters” on the NE ¼ of Section 26, Township 6, Range 9, and later homesteaded this land.  Mr. Bentz also holds the distinction of being the first businessman in this settlement.  He built a sawmill in 1866 to supply lumber for new settlers and homesteaders.\nIn 1857, William Freeburn, who was a native of Gallowayshire, Scotland, also came here to settle.  He became a farmer, and worked as a carpenter.  Later, when the town originated, he organized and became president of the Sterling Lumber Company.  Still later, he platted and developed Kneeland’s Addition to the original town of Sterling.\nIn 1861, J. C. Kneeland came to Nebraska.  In 1869 he homesteaded the SW ¼ of Section 26.  An item of interest in later years states that William Kneeland married Jan Bentz, youngest daughter of John and Rachel Bentz, on July 4, 1866.  A daughter, Hattie, was the first child born in the Sterling community.  The grave of their infant son is said to have been the first in the Sterling cemetery.\n(Note:  I can clearly recall Mrs. Jane Kneeland’s occasional visits with my mother during the early 1920’s.  Mrs. Kneeland’s home was in the present Gary Fritch property.  Her daughter, Hattie Kneeland Hitchcock, lived next door, in what is now the Dwight Weiss residence.  Mrs. Kneeland was deceased in the early 1920’s)\nIn 1865, Joseph Ray came to Sterling from New York and homesteaded the NW ¼ in the same section with Bentz and Kneeland.  In 1867, John Hauck, his wife and two children (Laura and Albert), come from Pennsylvania.  His occupation was farming.\nIn 1869, William Mann came from Illinois with his family and bought the land owned by John Ray.  He also bought a few acres of the southwest corner of the Bentz land and several acres across the river from Mr. Kneeland.  Here he built a dam and a gristmill in 1870.  This mill was such a vital business for many years in the history of Sterling, that it might be interesting to review some history pertaining to it, especially since its replica occupies the place of honor on Sterling’s beautiful Bicentennial float.\nBuilt in 1870, the main structure of this m","cbCaid7xFKHAvTT8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid7xFKHAvTT8","docx",256871,95,"English","# PART I\n## 编者说明与历史时间点\n## 定居趋势与重要迁徙路线\n## 早期定居者与社区形成\n## Kneeland、Ray 等家族信息\n## Sterling磨坊的兴建、经营与拆除","[{\"question\":\"Alma Thompson 的城镇史研究是如何启动的？\",\"answer\":\"Alma Thompson 的城镇史研究是如何启动的？\"},{\"question\":\"早期定居者通常沿哪些区域建立聚落？\",\"answer\":\"最初的趋势是在较大的河流沿线修建城镇，并在周边山谷耕作；文中提到 Big Nemaha River 和 Yankee Creek 等区域。\"},{\"question\":\"文章重点记录了哪座重要的磨坊？它经历了怎样的更替？\",\"answer\":\"文章重点描写了 1870 年建成的磨坊。文中记述其在多位业主名下运营（如 1872 年 John Hauck 经营至 1885），并在后续年份形成“Sterling Mills/ Sterling Milling Co.”等称呼，最后在 1931 年购买后拆除，木材被用于圣玛丽（St. Mary）的咖啡馆与服务站建设。\"}]","Alma Thompson’s History - Part I | DOCX",1788329509,33]