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Marker Monday: Maginnis Irrigation Flume
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on one of many irrigation flumes constructed by the ...
Marker Monday: Boot Hill
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. The first people buried at Boot Hill were a mother and child, but ...
Marker Monday: Dobytown
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Dobytown, a frontier town that catered to the ...
Marker Monday: The Smith Limekiln and Limestone House
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Smith Limekiln, one of the last remnants of ...
Marker Monday: Deep Well Irrigation
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. When the Dust Bowl hit the midwest, one of the things that helped ...
Marker Monday: The Grand Duke Alexis
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing a moment of international connection when the ...
The Long Journey Of White Fox
In 1874, a Pawnee man named White Fox died from disease while traveling in Sweden. Tragically, his remains didn't make it back home for over a century thanks to the ...
Automobile Thieves
Shortly after the introduction of cars came car thieves. According to an Omaha-based magazine, the worst thieves weren't the ones that stole the whole car, but those ...
Wash Day on the Trail Farm, 1905
Doing laundry now is unpleasant on the best of days. This 1905 Otoe County laundry day looks especially rough.
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The 20th Century chest that can cook
This curious object is the Thermator fireless cooker, and it was manufactured right here in Nebraska.
Fireless cookers were popular in the early 20th century, and ...
Ledger Art
142 years can put a lot of wear and tear on a leather-bound diary. Our Ford Conservation Center fixed it up and preserved both the original diary entries and the Native ...
Five Ways to Experience Nebraska History
Our state has a rich history with so many stories to tell. History Nebraska has five easy and fun ways you can discover that amazing history yourself!
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