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Japanese Professional Baseball Began in Lincoln?
Japan has long had a passion for baseball. The game was first played there in 1871. It spread first among elite private schools and became the nation’s most popular ...
Marker Monday: The O.K. Store
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The first settlers of Hall County, Nebraska, nearly all of whom were German immigrants, arrived on July 5, 1857. They platted Grand Island City and ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Lincoln County Historical Museum
The Bicentennial year of 1976 marked the beginning of the Lincoln County Historical Museum. Planning for the museum began years earlier and culminated in a July 4th ...
Marker Monday: Prisoners of War in Dundy County
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In May 1944 German prisoners of war from Camp Atlanta, Nebraska, were sent to a side camp near here to help area farmers complete the 1943 corn ...
How a Nebraskan Helped Invent the Modern Livestock Industry
By David L. Bristow
Today we take for granted that the livestock business involves large feedlots, management based on nutritional science, and use of ...
Marker Monday: Pibel Lake Recreation Area
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Pibel Lake Recreation Area grew out of an 1897 irrigation claim for ...
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