Situated on the south central border between Kansas and Nebraska, Inavale was once a thriving and vibrant rural community. Flourishing during the wheat boom of the 1920’s, Inavale boasted of a lumberyard, a meat market, two general stores, a bank, a pool hall, a school, a post office and a small music hall.
Taking its first blows during the great depression, Inavale’s hopes were buried along with the buildings in the dust storms of the mid 1930’s.
Battered by years of blowing dirt, Inavale’s houses and farms were literally buried up to their roofs by dust. Today, the abandoned houses, buildings, and barns still display the scars and stains of the great dust storms. Worn and weathered, they are a reminder of one of the worst decades ever recorded in Nebraska’s history.
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