Marker Monday: The North Bottoms
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The North Bottoms neighborhood was settled by Germans from Russia beginning in the 1870s. During the preceding century they had colonized in Russia, ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: John G. Neihardt Study
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The building was erected on this site in the 1890s for August Hartman and used as a residence by various owners until 1964. Poet John G. Neihardt ...
Marker Monday: The Bank of Florence
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The Bank of Florence was chartered by the Nebraska Territorial legislature on January 18, 1856. It was located in this substantial building, ...
Statehood Day
Happy 157th Birthday, Nebraska!
Marker Monday: Malcolm X
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born Malcolm Little at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925. He was the son of Earl and Louise Little, ...
Marker Monday: Kearney Cotton Mill
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In the late 1880’s, Kearney business leaders envisioned the city as a major manufacturing center. The Kearney Cotton Mill was among the many ...
Marker Monday: Cather Childhood Home
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Built ca. 1876, this is the house in which Willa Cather lived from 1884 to 1890. She describes it in “Old Mrs. Harris,” in “The Best Years,” and in ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska School for the Deaf
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Nebraska School for the Deaf, established in ...
Emigrants along the Trails at Chimney Rock
When people traveled west on the Oregon, Mormon, California, and other famous trails, they had to decide what to bring with them and what to leave behind. Many of them ...
Native Americans along the Trails at Chimney Rock
While the land was unknown to emigrants during their travels on the trails across Nebraska, it had been home to several Indigenous tribes for thousands of years. They ...
Marker Monday: Camp Clarke Bridge and Sidney Black Hills Trail
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Just north of here the Camp Clarke bridge crossed the North Platte River. The bridge was built in the spring of 1876 by entrepreneur Henry T. ...
Nebraska State Historic Preservation Board Meeting, May 10th
The next Nebraska State Historic Preservation Board meeting will be held Friday, May 10th.
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