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Liberty is an incorporated village in Gage County in southeastern Nebraska.

The area around Liberty was being settled as early as 1855, making it one of the oldest settlements in Gage County.

Liberty was founded by early settler David Palmer, who ran a trading post in the area; Palmer later drowned in a nearby river and was buried in the Liberty Cemetery.

The village took its name from an early post office called Liberty, whose first postmaster in the early 1870s was Cornelius S. Wymore.

Liberty's town plat was filed with the Gage County register of deeds on June 19, 1881, and the Burlington railroad was built through the village that same year, with trains running by the fall of 1881.

In its heyday in 1890, Liberty had a population of 469 and supported three grocery stores, a meat market, a livery, a dry goods store, a hotel, a law office, a hardware store, an undertaker, a lumber yard, barbershops, and its own newspaper, The Liberty Journal.

The population of Liberty was just 37 at the 2020 census, a drop of more than half from 76 people in 2010.

At the 2010 census, Liberty had 76 people living in 29 households and 20 families.

Liberty covers 0.25 square miles, all of it land, according to the United States Census Bureau.

Liberty grew up on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's main line between Chicago and Denver by way of St. Joseph.