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Village · Seward County · Population 210 (2020 census) · ZIP 68360 · Founded 1874 · Peak population 279 (1920)

About Garland

Garland is a village of 210 people (2020) in northeastern Seward County, at 1,575 feet; State Spur 80D runs 3½ miles north to it from US 34, and Seward is about 6½ miles west-southwest. On Main Street the 1920 Germantown State Bank building, on the National Register, recalls the town’s first name. Poet Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004–06, lives on an acreage near Garland. Garland is on Central Time.

History

When the Midland Pacific Railroad built from Lincoln to Seward in 1874, Hiland Fraisure platted a town at its depot and named it Germantown for its German settlers. The Germantown State Bank, incorporated in 1904, put up its stone Classical Revival building in 1920; it closed in the 1930s and now belongs to the village, which is restoring it. During World War I, with anti-German feeling high, the town took the name Garland on December 11, 1918, for Raymond Garland, the first local soldier to die in the war, of pneumonia before he reached France. The population peaked at 279 in 1920.

Highways and trails through Garland

Route	One way	Other way
Spur 80DRuns north from US 34 to the village	South to US 34	North end at Garland

Nearby towns

Bee	about 6 mi northwest	County roads
Seward	about 6 mi west-southwest	US 34
Malcolm	about 7 mi east-southeast	US 34
Ruby	about 9 mi south-southwest	County roads
Dwight	about 10 mi north	County roads
Staplehurst	about 10 mi west-northwest	County roads
Raymond	about 11 mi east	County roads
Pleasant Dale	about 11 mi south-southeast	County roads
Lincoln	about 17 mi east-southeast	US 34

Things to see

the Germantown State Bank Building (National Register, 1984) · Outlaw Steakhouse & Saloon, 153 4th St.

Health care

Hospital: Memorial Health Care Systems, Seward, about 6 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Cox, History of Seward County (1905); Fitzpatrick, Nebraska Place-Names (1925); Nebraska State Gazetteer (1890); History Nebraska markers; National Register; Nebraska Department of Transportation; Nebraska Game and Parks; NOAA; Seward County; City of Seward; City of Milford; Village of Staplehurst; Village of Bee; Cultivate Seward County; Southeast Community College; Concordia University. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.