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Brookside Farm


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Brookside Farm The Brookside farm (also known as the Gridley-Howe-Faden-Atkins Farmstead), illustrates an historically typical farmstead evolution in Nebraska. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the farmstead is a rare, well preserved collection of buildings and structures which reflect changes in agriculture from timber claim to twentieth century technology and small scale farm diversification.


Address: 1 mi. N of jct. of NE 71 and State St.

Come visit us in Kimball, Nebraska

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Kimball City Office Building

Kimball, NE Historic Buildings

Panorama Point and Three-State Marker

In the extreme southwest corner of the county, thirty three miles from Kimball, rises the highest point in Nebraska. This site, 5,424 feet above sea level, looks more like a rise in a pasture than the highest point in the state.

Kimball, NE Natural Attractions

Wheat Growers Hotel

Constructed in 1918 the Wheat Growers Hotel is located in Kimball. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Kimball, NE Historic Hotels

Tri-State Corner Marker

The original marker designating the southwestern corner of nebraska and the southeastern corner of Wyoming where they meet the Colorado line was erected on august 17, 1869 by Oliver N. Chafee. The marker had only "Colorado" (then a territory)

Kimball, NE Landmarks

The Stone Building

The Stone Building is a two-story structure built in 1893-94 of rough-cut, locally quarried limestone. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Kimball, NE Historic Buildings

Things to do Historic Homes near Kimball, NE

Brookside Farm

Severin Sorensen House