My initial thought upon seeing this historical marker was “Why did they name it ‘Atlanta’?”
Turns out, there’s a village in Nebraska named ‘Atlanta’. I have never heard of Atlanta, Nebraska, but then I suppose most of the rest of the state has never heard of Stockville, either.
During World War II, a prisoner-of-war internment camp was located directly north of here. The camp had its beginning in a request by the Holdrege New Industries Committee for a federal conscientious-objector camp to help relieve the severe war-time farm labor shortage. Instead, a prisoner-or-war camp was built.