Marker Monday: Long Pine – A Railroad Town
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Like many Nebraska communities, Long Pine’s history is tied to railroad development. When the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley line arrived ...
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Marker Monday: Spade Ranch
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Twenty miles northeast of here is Spade Ranch headquarters, a National Register of Historic Places site. In Ellsworth are the business offices ...
Nebraska Historical Marker Photo Submission
With over 500+ historical markers across the State of Nebraska, the Nebraska State Historical Society is looking to our history lovers to give a helping hand and share ...
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Round Dance
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Marker Monday: University of Nebraska at Kearney
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In 1903 the legislature appropriated $50,000 to establish a state normal school in central or western Nebraska. After 111 ballots, the State Board of ...
Marker Monday: Japanese Balloon Bombs
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During World War II the Japanese built some nine thousand hydrogen-filled, paper balloons to carry small bombs to North America, hoping to set ...
Marker Monday: Atlas D Missile Site A
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During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in October 1957. A perceived “missile ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska’s Big Rodeo
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When Burwell residents put on a local rodeo in 1921, the event was so successful that they made it an annual affair and built a permanent ...
Wallpaper Conservation at the Willa Cather Childhood Home
After spending the first nine years of her life in Virginia and another 18 months on a homestead in south central Nebraska, Willa Cather’s family settled in the nearby ...
Marker Monday: Fremont, Nebraska
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Fremont was laid out in August 1856. The town site was named for John C. Fremont, the new Republican Party’s nominee for president in 1856, ...
Marker Monday: Andrew Jackson Higgins
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Andrew Jackson Higgins, designer and manufacturer of World War 11 landing craft known as “Higgins boats,” was born August 28, 1886, at Columbus, ...
Conserving an Omaha Performer’s Legacy
Recently the Ford Conservation Center treated a large photograph from the mid-1920s. It was brought in by the descendants of Mildred Mae Moorman (nee Jacque, ...
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