Excerpt from History of Washington County, Nebraska: Its Early Settlement and Present Status, Resources, Advantages and Future Prospects

The first white settlement made in Nebraska was at a point now in cluded within the boundaries of Washington county, on which the town of Fort Calhoun is located. It was here, also, that the first council was ever held by the whites with the Indians of the then unexplored north west - a vast region of country extending from the Red river of the South to the British possessions, and from the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean.

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