Jim McKee wrote a brief historical sketch of Orleans, Nebraska for the Lincoln Journal Star on March 23, 2017, "Orleans had a college, and was a county seat."
The Free Methodist College was founded in Orleans as a seminary in 1884. It operated as a college from 1887-1893 and is considered as a predecessor for what became Central Christian College in McPherson, KS. An institution affiliated with Methodist Episcopal Church used the Orleans buildings from 1893-1897 when property reverted to the Free Methodist Church. The buildings were razed in 1914.
McKee also mentions another school, H.B. Breeches Business College, that opened in Orleans in 1886.
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