William and Andrew McAdam built on the corner where the James Lumber Company now has an office. They were engaged in the furniture business. The Mc- Adams also built the old school house which stood for years on school house hill, whkh was later remodeled and used for a hotel on Main street. This old school was built about 1887 or 1888, but after being removed from the station the first school was held in a small

from the western boundary. It owes its existence and early establishment to the railroad. The station house of the railroad, built in 1870, was the only building in Potter for a number of years and was at one time, station, postoffice. and school room as the first school was held in this building with a teacher from Omaha. The country around the Potter station was used first by the cattlemen but gradually some settlers came. Among the men prominent in .settling up this locality was the Reverend Charles Anderson, who lived at Sidney but was active in locating people in the Potter district. Another family prominent in the promotion of the town was the Brotts, (Andrew and Lewis.) and their families. They established the first hardware store on m r where the Citizens' State Rank now

frame building where the Thornburg house was built later. The teacher then was Miss Alary O. Strong. By this time Potter had quite a few houses and was becoming a village. One of the first postmasters was Fred Nelson. The old livery barn was built by Frank Hyde and was one of the oldest buildings in Potter outside the section house and depot. He dug a well, the first in Potter and put up a tank and windmill, and even went so far as to pipe water to some of the buildings and houses, installing the first water system in the town, though it is primitive, and of simple construction.