INTRODUCTION
We have chosen the year 1883 as the base year for our Page Community
Centennial. That year brought, to this area, the greatest amount of
homesteaders. Those people, who left their homes, relatives and friends,
came here to start a new life on the prairie. We today, probably cannot
fully understand the problems they encountered nor the frustrations
they felt. We do know that theses forefathers brought with them a dream.
This dream may have varied a little between individuals but basically
it was shared by all, and that was to succeed.
It has been our purpose throughout this book to show the success of
all those people who have tried during the past one hundred years to
make Page and the community what it is today. We have arrived at the
one hundredth anniversary and are in a unique position to look back
at their “future”. Although there have been many who failed,
they all succeeded in leaving their mark upon our history. It is with
their inheritance that we must bravely face the next one hundred years.
DEDICATION
We, the Centennial Book Committee would like to dedicate our “Page
in History” to the group of individuals who homesteaded and settled
this community and especially Susie Haynes. Their courage and perseverance
enabled all of us to enjoy and share the benefits and experiences of
the community of Page, Nebraska. We gratefully acknowledge the following
articles written by Susie Reed Haynes. Susie had the foresight to leave
future generations this written, permanent story of pioneer life. She
wrote this article in the year 1964, at the age of eighty-seven.
Memoirs
of Mrs. Allen (Susie) Reed Haynes
AS I AM ONE of the few remaining pioneers who homesteaded in the Page
vicinity, I should like to leave a little history of this country as
it was seventy-five or eighty years ago. When one drives through the
country side today and sees the lovely homes with trees and fences,
it is undoubtedly hard for him to realize that only eighty years ago
all was a vast prairie over which Indians and buffalo had roamed a few
years before.
