This week in Alda
Nothing on Alda’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About Alda
Settlers were working the land around Alda by 1859, and the little community that took shape here around 1860 was first called Pawnee, after the Pawnee people. It later took the name of Alda, the first baby born in town, the child of a Union Pacific Railroad foreman, and in 1873 the whole place shifted to its present spot so it could sit right on the railroad. Early Alda was a section house, a depot, grocery stores, a schoolhouse and grain storage; the village incorporated in 1916, and farming and manufacturing have carried it since, with Merrick Machine Company building here from 1960. Today about 650 people live along U.S. Highway 30, seven miles west of Grand Island, with Husker Harvest Days spreading over its show grounds just northwest of town each September. South at the Alda exit off I-80, the Crane Trust Nature & Visitor Center opens its trails, bison herd and 35-foot observation tower along the Platte, where sandhill cranes gather by the tens of thousands every March.
Along Apollo St
- Alda Volunteer Fire Department · 100 S Apollo St
- The Auto Dolly · 104 S Apollo St Suite 2
- Pmi Nebraska Llc · 150 S Apollo St
- Kip's Transmissions and Auto Repair · 163 S Apollo St
- Nebraska Central Equipment · 164 S Apollo St
- Intoxalock Ignition Interlock · 163 S Apollo
- NAPA AutoCare Center · 163 S APOLLO ST, ALDA, NE 68810
- Alda Storage · 140 S Apollo Ave
- Chuck's Creations, Auto Restoration & Mobile Sand Blasting · 302 W Front St.
- RCK Creations & More · 602 Saturn St
- Double M Welding · 610 Saturn St
- United States Postal Service · 102 E Front St