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Marker Monday: Discovery Oil Well – Marathon Oil Company
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today's subject is the Discovery Oil Well, which marks the spot of ...
The Library and the Rock, June 17, 1892
In this cabinet card photo, University of Nebraska Chancellor James Canfield delivers a speech to the graduating Class of 1892. As a gift to the ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Rock County Historical Society Museum
The Rock County Historical Society Museum in Bassett houses artifacts pertaining to the county’s culture and traditions.
The museum centers around the old Chicago ...
Marker Monday: Lost Airmen of World War II
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On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper ...
Why John G. Neihardt was named Nebraska Poet Laureate in 1921
By David L. Bristow, Editor
On April 18, 1921, the Nebraska state legislature became the first* to name a state poet laureate, honoring forty-year-old ...
Marker Monday: Custer County’s First Courthouse
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the private residence that eventually became Custer ...
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