Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska

Paddock is an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.[1]

History

A post office was established at Paddock in the 1870s.[2] It was named for Algernon Paddock, a U.S. Senator from Nebraska.[3] Paddock was the county seat of Holt County from 1876 to 1879.[4]

gollark: "You pick basically whatever, and we pay for it" isn't really a monopsony; people still have demand for each university, but the version of demand as "willing and able to pay for it" just becomes "willing to have it".
gollark: If the government throws piles of money at free education, you would, presumably, eventually get the majority of people going through university or something. Which would be nice, if it did not also cost a vast amount of money. And at the same time you dilute... whatever the degree is supposed to represent... and I don't really know what happens.
gollark: But that university has basically no incentive to have reasonable prices.
gollark: I said "many", not "all".
gollark: The government throwing money at it will not make that better.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska
  2. "Holt County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. (1960). Nebraska Place-Names. University of Nebraska Press. p. 78. ISBN 0-8032-5060-6. A 1925 edition is available for download at University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.
  4. A. T. Andreas, "History of the state of Nebraska", The Western Historical Company, 1882 (transcribed by Susan Martin-Rott). Retrieved 2010-03-03.



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