There's No Cemetery In The World Quite Like This One In Nebraska
By Delana Lefevers|Published October 26, 2016
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Delana Lefevers
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As a lifelong Nebraskan, Delana loves discovering the many hidden treasures of her state. She has worked as a writer and editor since 2007. Delana's work has been featured on more than a dozen websites and in Nebraska Life Magazine.
A quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin goes, “One can tell the morals of a culture by the way they treat their dead.” The people of Nelson, in Nuckolls County, valued their departed so much at the turn of the 20th century that they completed an impressive feat of engineering to make it possible to visit the town cemetery as often as they wanted.
Today, the walkway still stands as a symbol of one little town’s determination and sense of community. There is no other cemetery walkway like it in the entire country; the dedication and ingenuity of the people of Nelson is unrivaled.