This week in Exeter
About Exeter
Exeter owes its name to the alphabet: when the Burlington railroad pushed west from Lincoln in 1871 it named stations in order, Crete, Dorchester, Exeter, Fairmont, and a local family from Exeter, New Hampshire, supplied the one that fit. Dr. H. G. Smith had already claimed free Homestead Act land here in 1870 and gave ground for the town. By 1878 there were sixteen businesses, a newspaper, a doctor and a hotel, and the village incorporated in 1879. The depot is gone and passenger trains no longer stop, but the main line and U.S. Highway 6 still run through. Today about 500 people share a city park with an aquatic center, a firemen's barbecue and street dance in summer, and the historic St. Stephen's Catholic Church among turn-of-the-century homes.
Along Exeter Ave
- Ekeler Repair · 107 N Exeter Ave
- Speece Family Chiropractic · 115 S Exeter Ave
- Generations Insurance Group · 119 S Exeter Ave
- Generations Bank · 139 S Exeter Ave
- Sweetwater Bar & Grill · 170 S Exeter Ave
- Greg's Market · 179 S Exeter Ave
- Pulliam Plumbing Inc · 188 S Exeter Ave
- T. Squared Co. · 198 S Exeter Ave
- Exeter Public Library · 202 S Exeter Ave
- American Legion · 232 S Exeter Ave
- Casey's · 518 S Exeter Ave
- Twisted Wrench · 120 S Depot St
- Erdkamp Motors Inc. · 167 E Seneca St
- Exeter Lumber LLC · 103 W South Depot St
- United States Postal Service · 189 E Seneca St
- First Congregational United Church of Christ of Exeter · 106 W Tecumseh Ave
- Farmer Funeral Home · 305 S Burlington Ave
- Saint Stephen's Catholic Church · 207 N Union Ave