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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 ...
The One-Day Wonder
On this day in Nebraska history, (March 2, 1867, to be exact), Turner M. Marquette took the oath of office to become the brand new state of Nebraska’s brand new (and ...
Busted for Ugliness by the Lincoln P.D.
The Lincoln Police Department has added history pages to its website (including a lot of material they found at our Government Records Facility). The site has photos and ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Shoemaker’s Ashes
"Edward Kuehl, one of the most peculiar characters that ever lived in Omaha, or anywhere else, was found dead in his bed last night in the back room of his place of ...
Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Bees and Wasps
The Omaha Daily Bee was certainly the largest and most influential Nebraska newspaper to include "Bee" in its name. Its longtime editor, Edward Rosewater (1841-1906), in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Magic among the Indians
What happens when a magician is tricked by his audience? Julius Meyer, pioneer Omaha merchant and Indian trader, is the source for this tale of how Sioux tribesmen in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Lincoln Penny
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln penny. When the Lincoln one-cent coin ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Last Buffalo and Other Hunting Stories
When A. N. Ward reminisced about his early hunting exploits with a reporter from the Omaha World-Herald in 1910, he recalled the days when the Nebraska prairie abounded ...
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