This week in Sterling
About Sterling
Sterling was platted in 1870 when the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad reached the Nemaha River valley. Local telling says three settlers flipped a twenty-dollar gold piece for the right to name the place, and William Mann won and chose his Illinois hometown. It grew into the second largest town in Johnson County, about fourteen miles northwest of Tecumseh. Its Broadway storefronts, village park, and the community center on Broadway hold the town's gatherings, from the Sterling Picnic with its car show and street dance to the Ruritans' fall BBQ cookoff. Just south, the Deer Creek Sodbusters hold an antique machinery show every August that the Library of Congress has named a Local Legacy. About 480 people live here, and the Sterling Jets school keeps roughly 200 students from pre-K through twelfth grade.
Along Broadway St
- Meadowlark Listening Room · 110 Broadway St
- Laffman Hot Rod Garage · 120 Broadway St
- Village of Sterling · 140 Broadway St
- Sterling Public Library · 150 Broadway St
- Waymire Well Drilling & Plumbing · 255 Broadway St
- Scott's Place The Legacy · 175 E Broadway St
- Waymire Well Drilling Inc · 255 E Broadway St
- Salberg Machine · 115 Washington St
- Sterling Public School · 250 Main St, Po Box 39
- Sterling High School · 250 Main St
- Sunnyside Childcare · 365 Main St