The one room schoolhouse and Sherman County
When Sherman County was first started children went to school in one room school houses. It was very different from how it is now, with some children only going three months and eight grades were taught in the same room all together! Teachers taught with whatever they had on hand and boys and girls could […]
Veterans of Sherman County
Sherman County has had many men and women serve in the military. Veterans in Sherman County range from the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the earlier years men formed veteran groups and women form auxiliary groups. In town we have the V.F.W. and a memorial at the cemetery.
Old ‘Engine 99’
In the library facing 8th Street is a beautiful stained glass window. The window is of a train and is entitled Old ‘Engine 99.’ The train is representative of a railroad that used to come through Goodland. That railroad was the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway and it brought the first train into Goodland on […]