In 1872, John D. Neligh and a few of his friends took a trip up the Elkhorn River from West Point, Nebraska.

Neligh took note of the scenic landscape and thought it would be the ideal setting for a town and the county seat.

He immediately left for Omaha to buy 520 acres for the town site.

He was apparently not aware it would make the ideal county seat, which Neligh eventually became.

[7][8][9][10] In May 1877, the Ponca tribe was forced to leave their homeland on the Niobrara River and move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.

The rigors of the journey and resettlement led to the death of one-third of the tribe's population.

She was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh, and her grave tended by the residents; in 1960, owing to the deterioration of the monument, the marker was set on a new foundation.

The original two-story mill was built with bricks made by John J. Crawford, using local clay.

The Antelope County News was launched in January 2014 as online-based media from Pitzer Digital, LLC.

[18] The Neligh News & Leader serves all of Antelope County and has a circulation of more than 1,600.