The original settlement in Hall County, Nebraska, was established here by settlers who arrived on July 4, 1857: R.C. Barnard, Lorenz Barnard, Joshua Smith, David P. Morgan, William Seymour, Heinrich Schoel and wife, Heinrich Joehnck and wife, Wilhelm Stier and wife, Friedrich Doll and wife, Christian Andreson and wife and child, Friedrich Hedde, Wilhelm A. Hagge, Heinrich Egge, Cornelius Alexson, Christina Menck, Anna Stier, Cay Ewoldt, Heinrich Schaaf, Peter Stuhr, Matthias Gries, Hans Wrage, Friedrich Landmann, Marx Stelk, Theodor Nagel, Herman Vasold, George Schultz, Friedrich Vatge, Johann Hamann, Detlef Sass, and Nicholas Thede.