A little history on the founding of Hampton, surviving a baby tornado

Greetings to everyone from the community of Hampton. In case you don’t know where “Hampton” is, we are six miles east of Aurora and 17 miles west of York, in the heartland of Nebraska. We were surveyed and platted in 1879 after a Joshua Cox settled in the area and coming from Illinois. The railroad was being built from York to Aurora, and he decided there should be a town to help other se...