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Antioch is a ghost town in Sheridan County, Nebraska, United States. Located approximately 15 miles east of Alliance on Nebraska Highway 2, the town was once nicknamed "the potash capital of Nebraska." The location of the town near several major alkali lakes among the Sandhills of western Nebraska made Antioch the logical home of five potash reduction factories: the American, Nebraska, Alliance, National, and Western potash companies.〔("The Great WWI Potash Industry of Southern Sheridan County, Nebraska" ) Sheridan County Historical Society. p. 2. Retrieved Sept. 25, 2010.〕 All these companies were major suppliers of potash during World War I. As a late boomtown, Antioch sprang out of the war-driven needs. According to one historian, the year before the United States became involved in WWI, the town only had one schoolhouse, a church, and a store. With the advent of a method to distill potash from western Nebraska's alkali lakes by University of Nebraska scientists, by 1917 Antioch was "a small city."〔(1919) ''The American Missionary.'' Volume 73. Congregational Home Missionary Society, American Missionary Association.〕 Antioch quickly had five large-scale potash plants, and within months the town had more than 5,000 residents. Following the war the population left again.〔("Antioch: Potash boom town" ). Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved Sept. 25, 2010.〕 When Germany resumed trade with the United States in 1921, the potash trade was decimated. The factories immediately closed.〔 The machinery was sold for scrap; the factories were demolished for the salvage value of the building materials; and the company housing was torn down or moved. Only the foundations of the factories and of some of the larger houses remained.〔Jensen, Richard E. ("National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Antioch Potash Plants". ) (Nebraska State Historical Society. ) Retrieved 2013-10-18.〕 Today, Antioch has fewer than 25 residents. In 1979, the remains of Antioch's potash plants were added to the National Register of Historic Places.〔("Nebraska National Register Sites in Sheridan County". ) (Nebraska State Historical Society. ) Retrieved 2013-10-18.〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antioch, Nebraska」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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