Alliance, Nebraska August 27, 2016 Dooby's Frontier Town

Original Log Cabin

One of the first Texico stations

Plows and machinery

Hay Seeder

From here we headed to another place someone had told us about that was supposed to be very interesting and full of antiques and it is free. (donation box)  There were so many different buildings, it wasn't something we were going to see all of it in 20 minutes. Step back in time at Dobby's Frontier town. Bobby wanted to recreate a town like his boyhood to give others the chance to see and feel what life was like in early Nebraska. Dobby started his adventure by transforming a former milk house building into into a  replica of the first Alliance/Grand Lake Post Office for the Alliance Centennial. Some buildings were restored on site, such as the original Bootleggers Shack. Others  were brought in and given a new resting place like the Texaco Gas Station that was one of the first filling stations in the area and the 1912 German Evangelical Luthern Church. One by one over the next 28 years, new buildings came to be built or created.

Oil Wagon

      Dobby's Frontier Town is the home to the cabin of the region's first black Homesteader, Robert Ball Anderson. It is the real log cabin , and all around the cabin are more buildings full of antiques and the cabin has a bed of the period  and hand made furniture.
       There is a general store filled with everything a pioneer would need to buy in the 1800's. I took so many pictures, I wish I had room to post them all. There is a dental chair and all the equipment and a complete mortuary and barber shop. I was told that back then the barber was also the dentist and Mortition. there were also caskets of the period too.

Barbershop

       Last but not least, is what every frontier town had: a saloon fully stocked with a Bordello above,  a jailhouse with real steel cells, beds, commode and sheriffs desk and office. Also a beautiful little German Luthern church with and antique pump organ.  Outside there is a piece of every antique machinery there was. the yard is full of it.
     Other stores and things to see are: 1880's post office, Blacksmith shop' one room school, Bank,  Baled Hay House, Cobblers Shop, There is 26 buildings in all. I highly recommend it to anyone in Nebraska and to you travelers, get off the interstate and go see the history of our Pioneers.

Mercantile

Inside of the Log Cabin