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Nebraska’s Japanese American History
By David L. Bristow, Editor
April 18, 2023
Japanese immigration to the West began following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, with immigrants coming first ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fred Astaire’s Omaha Origins
Never forget that Fred Astaire was born in Omaha. This column originally from 1999 tells the story.
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Marker Monday: Broken Bow Town Square
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of Broken Bow through the ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park
(May 1, 2024)
The Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park is a tourism gem where the history of German Mennonites from Russia, along with the history of the town ...
Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Marker Monday: Camp Clarke Bridge and Sidney Black Hills Trail
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Just north of here the Camp Clarke bridge crossed the North Platte River. The bridge was built in the spring of 1876 by entrepreneur Henry T. ...
Native Americans along the Trails at Chimney Rock
While the land was unknown to emigrants during their travels on the trails across Nebraska, it had been home to several Indigenous tribes for thousands of years. They ...
Marker Monday: Phelps County
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The great immigrant roads to the West which followed the Platte River brought the first settlers to this area. Beginning in the late 1850's, ...
Emigrants along the Trails at Chimney Rock
When people traveled west on the Oregon, Mormon, California, and other famous trails, they had to decide what to bring with them and what to leave behind. Many of them ...
She Didn’t Know She Was a Statue
Lucy Vander Sterre’s face was used as a model for a prominent statue in Omaha. But she didn’t know the statue existed for more than 30 years. In the Fall 2014 issue of ...
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