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Flashback Friday: The Ruins along Highway 2
The ruins of the potash plant at the former town of Hoffland, Sheridan County, Nebraska, July 9, 1955. NSHS RG2541-6-31
Highway 2 through the Sandhills ...
Gasohol – The First Time Around
This innovative motor fuel was not promoted as a way to relieve oil shortages or mitigate environmental problems. Rather, ethanol promised economic ...
Flashback Friday: A 1930s Medical Romance
Medical student Joe Holoubek was dismayed the first time he saw a “hen medic” in a class at Mayo Clinic in 1937. But he got over his prejudice against women doctors and ...
Flashback Friday: Hiram P. Bennet and Nebraska’s First Territorial Legislature
Thomas B. Cuming, secretary of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1858. James W. Savage and John T. Bell, History of the City of Omaha, Nebraska (New York, ...
Flashback Friday: The Great Omaha Train Robbery of 1909
This isn't the train that was robbed, but is one from that era: a Burlington train in Wilber, Nebraska, in 1910. NSHS RG0813-44
On a night train heading ...
Flashback Friday: A Day in the Life of Downtown Omaha
Downtown Omaha, 1920s. Looking west on Douglas Street from the intersection of Sixteenth Street. The Brandeis Building, which still stands, is on the left. NSHS ...
Marker Monday: The University of Nebraska
Chartered as a Land-Grant institution by the first regular session of the State Legislature on February 15, 1869, the University opened its doors to 20 collegiate ...
Marker Monday: Antioch Potash Boom-Town
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today, we're focusing on Antioch, the Nebraska ghost town that ...
Marker Monday: Ainsworth Army Air Field
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Ainsworth Army Air Field, completed on November 30, 1942, was a satellite of Rapid City Army Air Field and under command of the Second Air Force. ...
Marker Monday: Alliance Army Air Field
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In the spring of 1942 the U.S. Army selected a site one mile south of here for an airfield. The dry climate and open landscape afforded ideal ...
Flashback Friday: Historic Soddies as Modern Dwellings
Can you imagine living in a sod house—not as a pioneer, but as a modern person? Some people do, and some e pioneer-era soddies survive as modern dwellings.
A ...
Timeline Tuesday: Campaign Buttons of 1896
Although the hobby of collecting political memorabilia is probably as old as politics, the political campaign button first became important in the presidential election ...
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