Monowi became famous for having only one resident, Elsie Eiler, who has served multiple civic roles while operating the Monowi Tavern. It is not an abandoned ghost town, but its extreme population decline makes it one of America’s strangest functioning incorporated villages. Respect residents and private property.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: visitnebraska.com/monowi