This week in Palmyra
- NSAA State Class C1 Volleyball Championships, varsity girls volleyball
Wed, Nov 4 · 1 PM · Pinnacle Bank Arena - NSAA State Class C1 Volleyball Championships, varsity girls volleyball
Fri, Nov 6 · 1 PM · Pinnacle Bank Arena - NSAA State Class C1 Volleyball Championships, varsity girls volleyball
Sat, Nov 7 · 3 PM · Bob Devaney Sports Center - Choir: ECNC Vocal Music Clinic (High School)
Mon, Nov 9 · 1 PM · Johnson County Central Elementary Elementary Auditorium
About Palmyra
Palmyra sits on gently rolling hills beside Little Nemaha Creek in northwest Otoe County. A post office opened here in 1862 for settlers walking the cut-off trail from Nebraska City toward Fort Kearny, and the town itself was platted in 1870 on land belonging to the Baptist minister John Taggart, who set aside a four-block village park that still carries his name. When the Midland Pacific Railway arrived in April 1871 the place took off, with a general store, hardware store, mill and a bigger schoolhouse within a few years. For generations its big day was the Old Settlers' picnic, which grew to more than ten thousand people at its peak, and the women of the town club raised a fireproof library after two fires. Today about 530 people live in Palmyra, and the Palmyra Panthers of District OR-1 fill the fall and winter calendar with volleyball, wrestling, basketball and school concerts.
In the middle of Palmyra
- Palmyra Memorial Library · 525 Illinois Pl
- Palmyra Presbyterian Church · 615 Apple St
- Palmyra Methodist Church · 835 C St
- Debi's Creative Cuts · 421 C St
- Decker's Food Center · 400-498 C St
- Palmyra Fire Department · 230 W 5th St
- Farmers and Merchants Bank · 347 C St
- United States Postal Service · 320 C St
- Jr-Sr High School At Palmyra · 425 F St
- US Post Office · 320 C St
- Saint Leo's Catholic Church · 330 W 8th St
- Taggart Park · Taggart Park, 520 W 9th St