South McCook streets in 1926

Friday, October 14, 2016

In the 1926 Red Willow County Directory, available at the SWNGS library for research, there is a section dedicated to the McCook Divisions and Street Guide. When you are reading articles from the McCook Tribune online at Chronicling America (a free Library of Congress website: www.chroniclingamerica.gov) often you will find society news under the heading of "East McCook," etc. Sometimes these are precincts, but when it comes to McCook there were four distinct areas: 1. McCook, 2. East McCook, east of east 9th 3. West McCook, west of west 5th 4. South McCook, everything south of A Street. The following (quoted directly from the directory which was compiled by Mrs. N.E. Perley and printed by The Sunbeam Press) is a primer for understanding how South McCook was laid out.

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