Once a favorite watering hole, the Lone Tree Saloon is now
"Nebraska's oldest health food store in Nebraska's oldest
town". This building was also used as the Opelt Opera
House and was even mentioned in Willa Cather's writings.
Legend states that even Jesse James stopped by for something cool to
drink when he was traveling through Brownville. This early
photo shows what the kind of "thirsty outlaws" that
patronized the saloon.
Today, the Lone Tree Saloon is the home of Brownville Mills and
Harold Davis, shopkeeper, offers up stone ground flour and other
cereal products.
