{"id":37858,"count":1,"description":"Merna is a village in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 391 at the 2000 census.\nIn 1972, Gerald F. Merna, the Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, DC, learned there was a Third Class Post Office named Merna, in Custer County, Nebraska. Curious as to his \u201cnamesake\u201d Post Office, on Feb. 16th Mr. Merna wrote a letter to Kenneth L. Bergstrom, then the Postmaster of Merna, Nebraska 68856, inquiring how the town got its name \"Merna.\"\nPostmaster Bergstrom sent Mr. Merna a small pamphlet, \u201cSTORY of MERNA and AREA.\u201d Selected excerpts from that pamphlet disclosed the following information:\n\u201cMerna is located in Kilfoil Township of Custer County. The first Merna Post Office was located about one-half mile north of the present townsite and was established on March 2, 1880. It was located in a home built of cedar logs, rather than sod, occupied by the first Postmaster, Samuel N. Dunning. Postmaster Dunning and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/merna\/","name":"Merna","slug":"merna","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/37858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=37858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}