How old is it? In 1965, a grouping of Native American artifacts belonging to Thomas Marwood was donated to the Antelope County Museum by his family. According to museum records, Thomas’s parents moved to Clearwater area in 1869 where they built a log cabin and began farming. Thomas spent the rest of his life in the area and amassed a sizable collection of stone artifacts collected around the Clearwater area. The size, condition, and variety of the artifacts are impressive, but what is even more interesting about the collection is the vast difference in age of some of the stone projectile points. The attached picture shows a grouping of points covering a several thousand year time period. While it is impossible to assign a definitive date to a specific projectile point without further evidence to go on, it is possible to look at the physical characteristic of a point and assign it to a certain culture which can give a rough idea of its age. Simply put, certain groups of people made t
"The Railroad opened the West" This Friday night, the Antelope County Museum will celebrate their annual Night at the Museum. This year we will showcasing the village of Clearwater! Clearwater Depot built in 1880 Clearwater was named for the pure, sparkling, and clear water found in the creek that flows south and east of the town. It was founded in 1881 as a railroad stop for the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad-- known as the Clearwater Station. The land was previously owned by Francis M. Snider. By 1879 the railroad had built their line to the Norfolk area, and people in the Elkhorn valley were anxious to keep the railroad moving west. Various petitions and grants allowed the railroad to continue moving westward. on May 31st, 1881 the first passenger train passed through the Clearwater Station on its way to O'Neill. The track workers and early settlers stayed in tents until they later built homes and businesses in the area. Clearwater was first settled