This weekend on Saturday, September 17th and Sunday, September 18th, the Beason community will celebrate its 150th anniversary. Celebratory events are planned for both days to commemorate the milestone, including a Saturday morning parade and many other family-friendly events throughout the day.

Lincoln Daily News will be bringing readers a four-part series on the community starting today with the early history of the community and its founders.

Beason was laid out by Silas Beason, Jonathan R. Hall, George Gelsthorp, Elias Hammerton, Lewis C. Turk and Joseph Wilson, and was a railroad town. It was named for Silas Beason, who, along with William Gelsthorp, brought the railroad through Beason and Lincoln from Chicago.

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The Lincoln Banking Center, a division of The First National Bank in Tremont, is now open at 710 Woodlawn Road in Lincoln.

In celebration of the new branch, the bank will host an open house on Friday, October 23rd, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is invited to come out, meet the staff, tour the bank, and enjoy mid-day food.

Learn more about the new bank in today's edition of Lincoln Daily News.

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This Saturday, September 17th and Sunday, September 18th, will be the 51st National Railsplitting Festival in Lincoln at the Postville Courthouse on Fifth Street.

The public is invited to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday at the front steps of the courthouse. Come for the ribbon cutting, then do a walkabout to see all the 1800's era campsites operated by people in period wardrobes who are prepared to share with you information about life in the early days of Lincoln and Logan County.

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