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2015747 <br />NN\ <br />ARRIVERAILSIDE.COM <br />/r.• <br />amliftlimommommimmilimmi <br />FROM DEUTSCHLAND TO THE HEARTLAND. <br />The first settlers to Hall County arrived in 1857 when three Iowa -based businessmen <br />saw the economic potential of a town near the Platte River's Grand Island. They speculated <br />the railroad would soon follow. The venture went bankrupt, but the 37 German settlers <br />hired to start Grand Island City stayed. The majority of these original settlers were <br />from the area of the German -Danish border, Schleswig-Holstein. <br />TO LEARN MORE VISIT, <br />Dofiv Lcf-- <br />