Dorchester Times: Business Spotlight: Kohout's Christmas Trees

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Business Spotlight: Kohout's Christmas Trees

With Christmas only a 30 days away, we wanted to recognize Kohout's Christmas and Landscape Trees, which has served the Dorchester area for several years.

The Kohout tree farm opens the right after Thanksgiving. This year's business days and hours are: Nov. 27-29; Dec. 5-6, 12-13, 19-20; 9 a.m. until dark .Some of the customer perks include: hay rack rides to and from the field; complimentary hot chocolate , popcorn and cookies; and free coloring books for kids. Christmas tree varieties include Scotch Pine and White Pine.

At Kohout's, wreaths, swags, tree stands, bags and other Christmas items are also for sale. Trees will be shook and netted for free.

Located at 1214 State Highway 15, just southwest of Dorchester, the Kohout tree farm may be contacted by phone at (402) 946-6531 or by e-mail at makohout@hotmail.com.

10 comments:

AnonymousOctober 3, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Funny.........my neighbor has his own tree farm too ........... its called the pasture he let be overgrown with cedars!!!! I'm calling the state to turn him in..... Merry Christmas!!!
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AnonymousOctober 4, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Cynical Richard you are such a comedian (comedienne?) - NOT! The Times tries to give someone a pat on the back and you just can't handle it. I would guess some counselor would say it's your way of expressing your repressed anger at your mother for weaning you too early (age 6 maybe??). Try to put your hands together to applaud someone instead of using them to tear something apart.
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AnonymousOctober 6, 2007 at 9:41 AM
I applaud Marvin & Lorraine, they are very busy people, but they never miss an opportunity to support Dorchester. They are active in DACA, I see them at most events around town, they help when they can & they give whenever asked. I believe Marvin left the area for awhile but found his way back 'home' and the community is lucky he did. Thanks to Marvin & Lorraine for all they do & the attitude with which they do it.
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AnonymousOctober 6, 2007 at 2:23 PM
Hey now ........ I wasnt talking about the Kohout Christmas Tree Farm........ I live much further south and east ........... I'll be sure to get my Christmas tree from Kohouts this year ....... enough of the wire cleaner statue that my wife puts up each December
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AnonymousOctober 10, 2007 at 12:46 AM
niche marketing at its best
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UnknownNovember 25, 2009 at 11:01 AM
What would Christmas be without a trip to Kohout's..Thanks to Marvin and Lorraine for all their work. This year I'll be purchasing live Christmaas trees.
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RoyNovember 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Cynical Richard, you manage to make reading blogger comments painful and infuriating. Bah humbug to you!
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AnonymousNovember 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM
I like Cynical Richard, he keeps things entertaining. =) Leave him alone, he isn't hurting anyone with his goofy comments. I find a lot of the other comments on this blog to be very boring, at least he livens things up!
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AnonymousNovember 27, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I think cynical doesnt have much to do, and thinks about what he is going to write all day long, your not jeff dunham, richard. I would rather listen to jeff, than listen to your foulish comments. The dummies make more sense.
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AnonymousDecember 1, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Once again the tree at the school is beautiful. I want to thank the Kohout's for donating a Christmas tree each year to the school so the children can decorate it.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."