This week in Shelby
About Shelby
Shelby started out as a string of prairie post offices: a Civil War veteran named Horace Cowles ran one called Cyclone out of his home in 1873, and when the railroad arrived in 1879 a second office, Arcade, opened a mile east of today's town. In the winter of 1880 the office moved one more mile west, and because Arcade was too easily confused with Arcadia, settlers took the name Shelby from an official of the Omaha and Republican Valley Railway. Landowners Gilbert Van Vorce and Peter Matter shared their ground with the railroad so a trade center could grow, and the streets laid out along the tracks still carry their tree names: Walnut, Elm, Chestnut, Pine, Cherry and Oak. Grain elevators, hardware and general stores followed, and in the late 1920s a local boy, John R. Dunning, built radio station KGBY with his father above a grocery store before going on to play a key role in the Manhattan Project. Today about 700 people live along U.S. Highway 81, where the 1930 Sacred Heart Church with its red tile roof and bell tower rises over town and the Shelby-Rising City Huskies share one K-12 campus.
Along Walnut St
- Edgewater Insurance · 215 Walnut St
- Shelby City Clerk · 230 Walnut St
- Shelby Senior Center · 230 Walnut St
- A&B Bar 'n Grill · 250 Walnut St
- United States Postal Service · 210 N Walnut St
- Mane Attractions · 227 N Walnut St
- Hometown Table & Exchange · 244 N Walnut St
- J&K Grooming · 245 N Walnut St
- Shelby Lumber Co Inc · 301 N Walnut St
- Shelby United Methodist Church · 455 N Walnut St
- Shelby Community Library · 650 N Walnut St
- Shelby-Rising City Public Schools · 650 North Walnut Street
- Shelby public School · 650 N Walnut St
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church · 210 S Walnut St
- Shelby Public Library · 255 Walnut, Po Box 146
- Pinnacle Bank · 215 N Walnut
- Pody's Bar
- Strategic Financial Services · 150 E Park St
- Garden Glory Greenhouse & Nursery · 140 N Ash St