Marker Monday: Inventor of Center-Pivot Irrigation Machine
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Born in 1894, Frank Zybach grew up in Loup Township, Platte County, Nebraska. He began inventing at age 13. In 1948, he developed a prototype of a ...
Lillian Nelms
What We Found
Marker Monday: Czech Capital
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Many nationalities blended in America and Nebraska to create our great nation and state. Prominent among them were the Czechs. They left a land ...
Husker football allowed only one radio broadcast per season in the 1930s
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Why did the University of Nebraska broadcast only one Cornhusker football game a year? It was about money.
In September ...
1,733 Miles from Where? Kearney, Nebraska’s 1733 Identity
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Kearney has long promoted itself as the “Midway City” located halfway between the coasts, exactly 1,733 miles from both Boston and San ...
New Washington in Nebraska
Moses H. Sydenham (1835-1907) had a long and eventful life as a freighter, newspaperman, postmaster and storekeeper at Fort Kearny, and settler in the Platte valley. In ...
Made in Nebraska: Vineyards
(Published April 1, 2003)
A recent boom in Nebraska vineyards harkens back to an earlier time when grape vines were plentiful. In 1879 there were 84,000 vines ...
The Nebraska Highway Archeology Program—Rescuing Important Historical Information in the Path of Road Building Since 1959
What does archaeology have to do with highways? Are we digging up ruins of hold highways? Why would anyone do that? Highway archaeology is about identifying important ...
Where are the Sites?
One of the primary responsibilities of the Nebraska State Archeology Office (SAO), as dictated through the Nebraska Archeological Resources Preservation Act ...
Christmas at the Rock
Christmas is coming! What better way to celebrate than the way the settlers did in the nineteenth century?
Join us at Chimney Rock National Historic Site for some ...
Marker Monday: Mari Sandoz in Lincoln
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Mari Sandoz (1896-1966), Nebraska historian and novelist, lived at this site, 1226 J Street, from 1925 to 1937. Here in 1928, she began writing Old Jules, ...
Marker Monday: Rebecca Winters
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Rebecca Winters, daughter of Gideon Burdick, a drummer boy in Washington’s army, was born in New York State in 1802. She was a pioneer in the Church of the ...
Overland Migration Artifacts
chimney rock museum“With reference to clothing, I would say use any old clothes you may happen to have by you… All that I have to recommend to the ladies is that they do ...
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