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Timeline Tuesday: A Murderer’s Pardon: Governor Poynter and John Benwell Kearns
Governor William A. Poynter. NSHS RG2413.PH0-3
When John Benwell Kearns (aka John Benwell) was released from the Nebraska State Penitentiary on May 23, ...
Flashback Friday: The Illustrator’s Pencil: John Falter from Nebraska to the Saturday Evening Post
John Falter was a Nebraska boy who made good. His artistic ability, drive, and genial nature helped him become one of the most successful American illustrators from the ...
Flashback Friday: J. C. Penney’s Middle Name Really Was “Cash”
Grand opening of a new J. C. Penney store in downtown Lincoln, November 16, 1950. NSHS RG2183-1950-1116-2
James Cash Penney wasn’t a Nebraskan, and he ...
Flashback Friday: Poor Niobrara!
The town of Niobrara, located along (or as shown here, in) the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska, flooded in 1881. NSHS RG2118-5-14
Poor Niobrara, ...
Marker Monday: Stanton County
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Named for Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in 1862, Jacob Hoffman and Francis Scott filed the first homestead applications in the county on ...
Marker Monday: Austin
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Austin was named in honor of Simeon Austin, a circuit rider. In 1877 Austin post office was established on the farm of Oliver S. Brown and ...
Marker Monday: Oketo Cutoff
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From October 1862 until March 1863 stagecoaches of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express passed near here along the Oketo ...
Marker Monday: Harrop
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the story of John Harrop, who tried and ...
Marker Monday: McCook Army Air Base
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McCook Army Air Base, activated April 1, 1943, was one of eleven Army Air Force training bases in Nebraska during World War II. The base was ...
Will Winter Never End?
How bad does it have to be before a locomotive snowplow gets stuck? A crew near Chadron on the Chicago and North Western line resorted to hand shovels to dig out a ...
Free Gardens for the Unemployed
These hard times aren’t the first hard times Nebraskans have faced. And it’s not the first time community gardens have helped people put food on the table. On March 4, ...
Plant Trees, Get Land for Free
March 3: On this date in Nebraska (and U.S.) history the Timber Culture Act became federal law. The 1873 provision allowed homesteaders to acquire 160 acres of land by ...
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