> Hanback or Handback on any old Norton County maps. I am > interested in learning more about this town-- >From F. H. Lockard's History of the Early Settlement of Norton County, 1894, p. 130 [Devillo R. Blanding] moved back to the farm on Dry Creek [in the north part of the county] and put in a small stock of general merchandise; shortly after this he got a post office established at his place which was named Hanback in honor of Louis Hanback, our congressman at that time. He was postmaster at the time of his death. Mrs. Blanding was then appointed and held the office one year. The office has since been discontinued. also p. 231 [listing early settlers in near Dry Creek in Aldine township] John A. Blauvelt and his father-in-law, Mr. O'Brien came to Aldine in 1877. Blauvelt was elected county surveyor in 1879 and served one term. He moved to Nebraska in the fall of 1881.