Golf in Cozad

Cozad in Dawson County sits along the Platte River near the 100th Meridian — the geographical line that Frederick Jackson Turner identified as the boundary between reliable-rainfall East and arid West. The community takes its name from John J. Cozad, an Ohio gambler who founded the town in 1873, and it is the birthplace of artist Robert Henri, one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American realist painting. Cozad Country Club offers flat, wind-influenced recreational golf in a community with more cultural depth than its modest size suggests. The 100th Meridian runs through Cozad — a geographical threshold celebrated by a marker in the downtown — giving the community a specific identity as the place where the American East ends and the arid West begins. This meridian significance adds a layer of meaning to Cozad Country Club's position in the Nebraska landscape.