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Line 82: ==History== The city is named for Charles E. Friend,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n131 132]}}</ref> who homesteaded the land and initially named the community Friendville. He operated a dry goods store and post office. In 1873 the [[Burlington and Missouri River Railroad]] named its new train station there "Friend."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ci.friend.ne.us/geninfo.htm |title=Friend, Nebraska -ci.friend.ne.us |access-date=2009-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628195414/http://www.ci.friend.ne.us/geninfo.htm |archive-date=2010-06-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[National Greyhound Association]] was founded in the community in 1906 (called at the time National [[Coursing]] Association).<ref> The Friend Police Department, which was initially housed in a tool shed during construction of [[U.S. Route 6 in Nebraska|U.S. Route 6]], was reported by ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' to be the smallest police station in the world
==Geography== Line 133 ⟶ 132: ==Notable people== * [[Elvin C. Drake]], head track and field coach of the 1956 [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] Champion [[UCLA Bruins]] * [[John L. Loos]], American historian born in Friend in 1918 * [[Anna Louise Strong]], journalist and [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] activist Line 149 ⟶ 148: {{commons category|Friend, Nebraska}} * [http://www.friendbulldogs.org Friend schools] {{Saline County, Nebraska}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Cities in Nebraska]] |