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Pierce Repurposes Carnegie Library into Event Center
Wragge’s advice for the 57 remaining Carnegie Libraries in Nebraska is to keep them, “There will never be another building like it and when it is gone, it’s gone.” When ...
North Platte Transforms Carnegie Library into Children’s Museum
It’s hard to imagine a world without free access to the unlimited knowledge offered by public libraries. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, this was not the ...
Journey of a Portrait
We often think that because we value something, it was always seen as valuable and worth keeping. Especially if that cherished object is old, we like to think that it ...
Don’t Let Women Vote If You Want to Keep Drinking
If you let women vote, will they take away your beer? There was a time when many Nebraska men feared their wives and daughters would do just that.
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Nebraska Archeological Expeditions of…. Expeditions
by Rob Bozell, History Nebraska, State Archeologist
In addition to a world-wide pandemic, social justice protests, murder hornets, western wildfires, and coin ...
Omaha Airfield Challenging Radios in Planes
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
As an emerging invention in the early 1920s, radios became popular as entertainment and as a means of ...
Oreapolis: Nebraska’s Ghost Town
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
In the 1850s, Nebraska was a newly-established US territory whose only towns lay along the Missouri River. Many of the ...
KGCH Wayne Hospital Radio
Dr. A. S. Lutgen, a Wayne local, established the town's first hospital in the early 1900's. During the radio rave of the 1920's, he bought a ship "radio telephone" with ...
Swabbing the Decks
Seventy-five years ago, the USS Missouri was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan to Allied Forces, ending World War II. The signing of the surrender took ...
Marker Monday: Lodgepole and the Union Pacific Railroad
Location
751-799 McCall St, Lodgepole, Cheyenne County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 41.148847, -102.6349
Marker Text
The history of Lodgepole has ...
Students Dig Into Archival Materials To Tell Nebraska Stories
Three Nebraska students were recognized at the state contest of National History Day, a research and project-based program for students in grades 6-12.
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Marker Monday: Hartington, Home of Two Nebraska Governors
Marker Text
This marker, dedicated on the 100th anniversary of Hartington High School, June 25, 1988, is in honor of two graduates who became governors of ...
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