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Marker Monday: Original Townsite of Oak
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. This week we're focusing on the original site of a village ...
Stabilizing three insect-damaged Masonic “carpets”
(Published April 2026)
Freemasons have long shared their values and traditions with new members through artwork, including visual aids known as master’s charts or ...
Marker Monday: Baled Hay Construction
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The invention of mechanical balers in the mid-1800s led to the use of bales of hay or straw as building blocks. Pioneer builders developed structural ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Johnson County Museum, From a Dream to a Destination
Tecumseh’s Cornerstone Building was built in 1890 on the courthouse square at the corner of Third and Clay Streets. In 2008, the dilapidated building was scheduled for ...
Centennial Fireworks, 1876
This ad ran in the Omaha Evening Bee on July 3, 1876, one of many fireworks ads in newspapers at that time.
Nebraska towns were full of wooden buildings but lacked ...
Marker Monday: Mullen, Hooker County
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The Grand Island and Wyoming Central branch of the Burlington railroad came through this area in 1887 and built a siding here named Mullen after a railroad ...
The St. Paul Church Riot
On the night of March 27, 1895, Elia W. Peattie one of the first female news reporters in Omaha, visited the diverse neighborhood of Sheelytown to report a fire. Located ...
Marker Monday: Duchesne Academy
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In October 1881, Mother Margaret Dunne and three religious of the Sacred Heart opened a boarding school for girls at a temporary location on Ninth and ...
Why Do We Have So Many Constitutions?
The United States has one Constitution, of course, but archives across the nation hold many state constitutions and local charters past and present—plus a countless ...
Marker Monday: Irish Capital of Nebraska
O'Neill, proclaimed the Irish Capital of Nebraska by the Governor in 1969.
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Marker Monday: Mari Sandoz in Lincoln
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Mari Sandoz (1896-1966), Nebraska historian and novelist, lived at this site, 1226 J Street, from 1925 to 1937. Here in 1928, she began writing Old Jules, ...
Repairing an Ivory Eagle Sculpture from Late 19th-Century Japan
With outstretched wings carved from ivory, a large eagle sculpture became the focus of a detailed conservation treatment at the Gerald R. Ford Conservation ...
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