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[[File:NE_Gage.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Gage County, Nebraska 

U.S. Census TIGER/Line map '']]    <div>Gage County, [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]], is located in the southeastern part of the state, with [[Beatrice (Nebraska, USA)|Beatrice]] (1950 pop. 12,000), the county seat, near its center. In 1953 there were two Mennonite ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]]) churches with 512 members (1953), the [[First Mennonite Church (Beatrice, Nebraska, USA)|First Mennonite]] (328) and [[Beatrice Mennonite Church (Beatrice, Nebraska, USA)|Beatrice Mennonite]] (174). The Beatrice Mennonite Hospital was also located in the county. The Mennonite settlement was concentrated west and largely within a 12-mile (20 km) radius of Beatrice. A few scattered families lived farther west and north extending into Jefferson and Saline counties.</div> The first Mennonites to buy land in this county were 12 Prussian Mennonite families of [[Mount Pleasant (Iowa, USA)|Mount Pleasant]], [[Iowa (USA)|Iowa]], who settled in Gage County in early 1877. They obtained good quality unimproved land for five to six dollars per acre. In 1878 another group of 34 families settled here, and in 1884, 10 families from [[Russia|Russia]]. Other families have migrated to the county from [[Germany|Germany]] and Russia since these early settlements, but not in large numbers.
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