As well as serving Fisons chemical (fertilizer) works, the line also served the adjacent Burwell Brick Company brickworks, a cement works, and local fruit growers and farmers.
Burwell is host to 'Nebraska's Big Rodeo,' an annual event usually held the last weekend of July.
In the Middle Ages it was a rich and powerful house and possessed 51 priories, including at Burwell in England.
The stone carving seen in the Lady Chapel bears similarities to work at King's College Chapel, Cambridge and at Burwell Church in Cambridgeshire.
Reach and Burwell follow on from there, completing these group of villages.
In medieval times, Reach was a hamlet sitting on the border of the parishes of Burwell and Swaffham Prior.
He may also be responsible for the parish church of Burwell.
Burwell | Carter Burwell | Burwell, Cambridgeshire | Peter Burwell Starke | Paul Burwell | Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. | George Burwell Utley | Burwell, Lincolnshire | Burwell B. Bell III |
Burwell then commuted to Minneapolis where he served as a secretary to businessman and legislator Loren Fletcher.
J.W. Randolph Publishers issued additional anti-Tom novels before the Civil War, among them the satirical White Acre vs. Black Acre (1856) by William M. Burwell.