Hastings, Nebraska Location of Hastings inside Adams County and Nebraska Location of Hastings inside Adams County and Nebraska Hastings is a town/city and governmental center of county of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. The populace was 24,907 at the 2010 census.
It is known as the town where Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927, and jubilates that event with the Kool-Aid Days festival every August. Hastings is also known for Fisher Fountain, and amid World War II directed the biggest Naval Ammunition Depot in the United States.
Joseph and Grand Island Railroad, who was instrumental in building the barns through Adams County. The region was previously open plain: the Donner party passed through on its way to California in 1846 and a pioneer cemetery marker in Hastings bears an inscription taken from Tamsen Donner's journal: "The nation between the Blue and the Platte is beautiful beyond compare.
Between 1872 and 1880, when the populace had grown to 2,800, Hastings was a boomtown.
The town/city was incorporated in April 1874, and in September 1878, after a five-year Great County Seat War, the governmental center of county was transferred to Hastings from Juniata. However, a fire in 1879 finished 33 buildings downtown.
Rittenhouse, the first practicing architect in Adams County and also mayor for ten years. Thanks to the barns s, the town/city appreciateed great prosperity amid the Gilded Age.
Hastings saw renewed expansion from 1900 to 1930, which is reflected by buildings in the Craftsman, Prairie, Colonial Revival, and American Foursquare styles.
Way. Hastings had four brickyards and in 1911 was producing more bricks than any other town/city in Nebraska, and all the paving bricks. During this period, the town/city also became known as the cigar-making capital of Nebraska.
In 1942, the Naval Ammunition Depot was constructed, initiating explosive growth: Hastings' populace interval from 15,000 to 23,000 in under a year and there was a critical shortage of housing, which prompted both alteration of existing housing stock and rapid assembly of new neighborhoods. Once World War II ended, staff was reduced at the ammunition depot, bringing Hastings' last expansion reconstructionto an end in 1950, and the depot eventually closed. Today, Heartwell Park and Central Hastings, two of the earliest neighborhoods, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Hastings Symphony Orchestra performs in the Chautauqua Pavilion, assembled in 1907 and on the National Register of Historic Places, while the Hastings Community Theatre performs in the auditorium of the former Spencer Park School, assembled amid the housing shortage of the 1940s.
On June 24, 2007, Hastings won Yahoo's Greenest City in America competition. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.66 square miles (35.38 km2), of which 13.48 square miles (34.91 km2) is territory and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km2) is water. A National Weather Service Forecast Office is positioned in Hastings, serving central and south-central Nebraska and six counties in north-central Kansas.
Hastings is the principal town/city of the Hastings, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Adams and Clay counties.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 12.8% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service through Hastings, operating its California Zephyr daily in each direction between Chicago and Emeryville, California, athwart the bay from San Francisco.
The Hastings Municipal Airport, owned and directed by the City of Hastings, serves the city.
The school precinct is the Hastings Public Schools.
Hastings has a several elementary schools.
The high schools are Hastings High School (public) Athletics Class B and St.
Fisher Rainbow Fountain; in the background is the Hastings Utilities complex The Jacob Fisher Rainbow Fountain in Highland Park, Hastings, is the biggest water fountain between Chicago and Denver. The fountain shoots continuously changing arrays of water jets (reaching heights of 67 feet) while green, yellow, orange, red, magenta, and blue lights illuminate the water in varying patterns.
Fisher Fountain was originally a temporary exhibit at the 1932 Adams County Fair, called the Electric Fountain.
The Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History is in an art deco building funded by $75,000 from the Works Progress Administration and instead of in 1939.
Albert Brooking, who established the exhibition in 1926 and provided it with many exhibits, including Indian relics, fossils, and the biggest private compilation of mounted birds in the US, was buried in the basement in 1946. The exhibition presently homes the Lied Super Screen Theatre, Mc - Donald Planetarium, and small-town and county-wide exhibits including the biggest diorama of whooping and sandhill cranes in the world. The Adams County Historical Society is positioned inside the exhibition.
The Naval Ammunition Depot, constructed on 49,000 acres (200 km2) southeast of Hastings and in operation from 1942 to 1946, was the biggest United States World War II naval munitions plant, encompassing over 2,200 structures valued at $71 million.
Hastings has twenty parks and recreational facilities throughout the city.
The town/city offers recreational and leisure programs and operates the Aquacourt Water Park, the City Auditorium, Lake Hastings, Chautauqua Pavilion, Duncan Field, the Pioneer Spirit Trail, Smith Softball Complex, Brickyard Park Amphitheater, and Heartwell Lake. Main article: Media in Hastings, Nebraska The principal journal in Hastings is the Hastings Tribune, presented six days a week. National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Nebraska Nebraska History 58 (1977) p.
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City of Hastings, NE Visit Hastings Nebraska! Municipalities and communities of Adams County, Nebraska, United States
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