Generator — Summer 2023
Learn about the Columbus Public Power Building and a building restoration project in Creston.
Learn about the Columbus Public Power Building and a building restoration project in Creston.
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“<br />
COLUMBUS MORE<br />
THAN EVER IS POWER CAPITAL<br />
WITH NEW HOME IN USE<br />
History of District From Earliest Days<br />
Makes Gripping Story<br />
By Francis Dischner<br />
Once again The Loup River Public<br />
Power district, long the source of<br />
‘putting Columbus on the national<br />
map,’ makes important history.<br />
Its new $100,000 home, being<br />
opened to the public inspection<br />
Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May<br />
17, not only entrenches Columbus<br />
as the Power Capital of Nebraska<br />
more securely, but marks another<br />
monument to the soundness of men’s<br />
dreams of long ago.<br />
MANY DATES<br />
The Loup power district annals are<br />
full of important historic dates. Its<br />
chronology has been told many times,<br />
and detailed in hundreds of news<br />
stories through the past nine years in<br />
the columns of The Columbus Daily<br />
Telegram as well as in the press of the<br />
state and nation.<br />
History often appears as dry and<br />
sleepy matter, though it is far from<br />
that actually. It is not the purpose of<br />
this sketch to tell again the story of<br />
the rise of the Loup River Public power<br />
district from firm seed planted in the<br />
mind of man to the vast and important<br />
enterprise of 1941.<br />
Rather, let’s recall a few dates that<br />
stand out perhaps most emphatically<br />
as milestones of progress in the Story<br />
of Loup River Hydro Power.<br />
SUMMER <strong>2023</strong> | 9
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