{"id":58,"date":"2014-06-19T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-06-20T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:53:36","slug":"mystery-of-minersville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of Minersville"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"628\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td colspan=\"1\" height=\"2\"><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"5\" rowspan=\"2\" width=\"240\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>MINERSVILLE<\/strong><br \/>\nMinersville was named for the coal deposits and mines in the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River.\u00a0 It is located in Otoe County in eastern central Nebraska about four miles south of Nebraska City and four miles east.\u00a0 It is located right next to the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks.<br \/>\nThe town was first called Bennett&#8217;s Ferry, due to a man named John Bennett, who operated a ferry across the Missouri River to Iowa.\u00a0 The post office in Bennett&#8217;s Ferry opened on January 28, 1856.\u00a0 The name was changed to Otoe City on April 20, 1857.\u00a0 The name was changed again to Minersville on December 21, 1874.<br \/>\nAt one time there was over 1,000 people living in Minersville.\u00a0 In 1901, a shaft cave in at the coal mines killed all but 14 men and boys working at the mine.\u00a0 The post office operated until February 15, 1923.\u00a0 The downtown area is still there, but is really run down.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MINERSVILLE Minersville was named for the coal deposits and mines in the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River.\u00a0 It is located in Otoe County in eastern central Nebraska about four miles south of Nebraska City and four miles east.\u00a0 It is located right next to the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks. The town was first called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","count-0","even alt","author-webmaster","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmystery.mywebpad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}