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Nebraska History Spotlight: the Orchard Historical Society
The Orchard Historical Society (OHS) was formed in 1989. The original board acquired a one-room schoolhouse and moved it to Orchard, Nebraska. The District 57 school ...
The History of Shelterbelts in Nebraska
In Nebraska the site of a Shelterbelt, also known as a windbreak, is common for those traveling across the state. These lines of trees are designed to protect fields and ...
Director Update: Nebraska History Museum Exhibit Plan
One of the clear mandates I received as the new director of the Nebraska State Historical Society was to return the permanent exhibits that tell the story ...
An “April Fool Lie”
Readers of the Omaha Daily Bee on April 2, 1885, must have been astounded to learn of the sighting of a gigantic serpent in the Missouri River near Omaha. The Bee’s ...
Marker Monday: Evelyn Sharp
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Evelyn Genevieve Sharp was Nebraska’s best-known aviatrix during her eight-year career. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Sharp and was born ...
Flashback Friday: How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow!”: Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s
1910 photo of the Beatrice Public Library, Beatrice, Nebraska.
The decade of the 1870s was a period of enormous growth and prosperity for the city of Beatrice. Founded ...
Nebraska Medal of Honor Recipients
The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration that is awarded to American armed service members who distinguish themselves with certain acts of ...
Marker Monday: Bess Streeter Aldrich
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“Love is more like a light that you carry .... that is what love is to a woman - a lantern in her hand,” says Abbie Deal the courageous heroine in Bess ...
Conserving an Artist’s Legacy
The Ford Conservation Center's Painting Lab recently completed the treatment of two oil paintings by Theodosia “Theo” Coie. The paintings date to the early 1900s and had ...
Two daring rescues of children from the path of a speeding train
George Poell looked out the locomotive’s window as soon as he felt the pull of the emergency brakes. A small child was wandering along the tracks, and the train was ...
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, First Native American Woman Physician
If you could travel back in time to October 3, 1910, you might see Dr. Picotte opening the door to welcome White Horse, in need of advice on building a new house, or ...
Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
When Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York on July 8, 1911, after a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York, it was perhaps the highlight of a long and colorful ...
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