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- ↑ Description and location of Belvedere Point Lookout
- ↑ (1904) Semi-Centennial History of Nebraska - 1904. Retrieved 8/6/08.
- ↑ (n.d.) Historic Florence - Culter's Park Marker
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- ↑ Douglas County. Andreas' history of Nebraska. Retrieved 8/11/07.
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- ↑ Peattie, E.W. (1895) "How they live at Sheely: Pen picture of a strange settlement and its queer inhabitants," in (2005) Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, a Journalist in the Gilded Age. University of Nebraska Press. p 61.
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