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Village · Jefferson County · Population 114 (2020 census) · ZIP 68350 · Founded 1880 · Peak population 256 (1890)

About Endicott

Endicott is a village of 114 in Jefferson County, about 6 miles southeast of Fairbury on the south side of the Little Blue valley. Endicott Clay Products, the county's best-known manufacturer, is just southwest of the village.

History

Endicott was platted in 1880 (Andreas gives 1881) where the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad crossed the St. Joseph & Western. J. H. Tait and his brother owned half the townsite and the Burlington the other half, and Tait was the first postmaster. The name honors William C. Endicott, a Massachusetts jurist whose family held Burlington stock and who later served as Secretary of War under Grover Cleveland. By 1881 the village had the Bills & Hodges bank, then the only bank in the county outside Fairbury, a stone office building and a Presbyterian church, and the population peaked at 256 in 1890.

In 1920 the Fairchild family began making brick from the Dakota clay exposed near the village. Endicott Clay Products now employs about 300 people, fires brick in beehive kilns, and has shipped it across North America; its brick is in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

Nearby towns

Steele City	about 4.9 mi southeast	County roads and NE 8
Fairbury	about 6 mi northwest	County roads
Jansen	about 7 mi north	County roads
Diller	about 9 mi east-northeast	County roads
Harbine	about 10 mi northeast	County roads

Things to see

Endicott Clay Products, 57120 707th Rd., across the Little Blue south of town and 2 mi west (a working plant; no public tours are advertised) · Rose Hill Cemetery and Silver Creek Cemetery · Rock Creek Station State Historical Park, a few miles northeast

Health care

No clinic in Endicott; nearest hospital: Jefferson Community Health & Life, 2200 H St., Fairbury (the county hospital, with a 24-hour emergency room; called Fairbury Hospital until 2017)

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Nebraska State Gazetteer (1890–91); Fitzpatrick, Nebraska Place-Names; History Nebraska and its historical markers; National Register of Historic Places; Nebraska Game and Parks; Little Blue and Lower Big Blue NRDs; Nebraska Department of Transportation; NEGenWeb Jefferson County; Visit Oregon Trail (Jefferson County tourism); city, village, school, museum and hospital websites. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.