A Swede, a shipwreck, and 50 Cents in his pocket

According to an account in an 1893 issue of the Table Rock Herald, Pawnee County had 882 people in 1860. By 1870, we had a little over 4,000. By 1880, it was almost 7,000. Then it swelled to 10,340 in 1890 and the high? In 1900, we had 11,770 people here. The population has decreased each census since. As of 2020, we are 2,544 strong within our 431.08 square miles.Now I take you back abo...

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