A major street in Grand Island is called “Old Potash Road.” I have wondered why it has this name, and this article from the July 1926 paper explains it.
“It is an item of surprising obscurity to the nation at large and even to the majority of the inhabitants of the state, that Nebraska leads all the Union in the mining of potash. ...Potash is an alkaline salt from the ashes of p...
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