Lewellen, NE

Lewellen is a village in Garden County, Nebraska, United States. The 2020 census counted 175 residents. The site of the September 1855 Battle of Ash Hollow, part of the First Sioux War, is near the modern-day settlement of Lewellen. The United States Army, with 600 troops under the command of William Selby Harney, made a surprise punitive attack on a Brule Sioux encampment led by Chief Little Thunder, in retaliation for the Grattan incident. Lewellen's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Nebraska setting. The local scoop is how Lewellen's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.