Japanese Balloon Bombs

Japanese Balloon Bombs

During World War II the Japanese built some nine thousand hydrogen-filled, paper balloons to carry small bombs to North America, hoping to set fires and inflict casualties. The first was launched November 3, 1944. The balloons rose to about 30,000 feet, where winds aloft transported them across the Pacific Ocean. On February 22,  Read more »

Spade Ranch

Spade Ranch

Spade Ranch

Spade Ranch headquarters is a National Register of Historic Places site. In Ellsworth are the business offices (built c. 1890) and home (built 1902) of cattleman Bartlett Richards (1862-1911), a Vermont native. Richards, brothers DeForest and Jarvis, Will Comstock, Charles Jameson, and others began assembling the Spade about 1888. By 1900 its range comprised some 500,000 acres,  Read more »

Pleasant Point Church

Pleasant Point Church

3334 State Highway 27 (20 Miles North of Ellsworth)
Ellsworth, NE 69340

Sunday School at 10:00 am on Sunday
Church Service at 11:00 am on Sunday
Bible Study and Prayer Meeting at 7:00 pm on Wednesday  Read more »

Sandhills High Country

Sandhills High Country

Ellsworth NE 69340
308-282-2753
 
Hunt and fish on our family owned cattle ranch covering nearly 20,000 acres in the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills. Sandhills High Country was established in 2000 to share and promote some of the best hunting and fishing in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska.

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