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Three Nebraska Locations Added to National Register of Historic Places
For more information on the National Register program in Nebraska, contact the Nebraska State Historic Preservation Office at (402) 471-4775 or visit ...
Charles Thone, Former Nebraska Governor and Congressman, Dies at 94.
Charles Thone, former Nebraska governor and congressman, died Wednesday at the age of 94. Born in Harrington, Nebraska on January 4, 1924, Thone graduated Harrington ...
Influential Women Artists of Nebraska
Nebraska's women artists that were active between 1880 and 1950 left a huge legacy, but you might not know that at first glance.
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We’re Number One!
Over the years, Nebraska has been "number one" in a lot of categories. We've had the nation's highest-rated football team, we've produced more popcorn than anyone else, ...
Back in ’67
According to the Fremont Tri-Weekly, the winter of 1867 was especially warm. The children were barefoot in January and a moneymaking scheme melted away.
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Victor Vifquain
Victor Vifquain (1836-1904), a native of Belgium, was one of the first Nebraskans to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, first authorized for heroic action by ...
Flashback Friday: Visit to the Penitentiary in 1875
The year 1875 saw two uprisings at the Nebraska State Penitentiary south of Lincoln. In January prisoners took the warden, William Woodhurst, and inside guards prisoners ...
Paul Vandervoort, Omaha Resident Turned Cuba Colonialist
Paul Vandervoort was a Union Veteran that settled in Omaha after the Civil War, but he is best known for his work helping to found an American colony in Cuba around ...
Rudolph E. Umland and the Federal Writers’ Project
The Federal Writers' Project helped many writers get through the hard times of Great Depression. Rudolph Umland was one of many that helped the FWP publish thirty ...
Twister Tall Tales
Crazy tornado stories are pretty common in Nebraska, but the Columbus Journal published a pair of especially unbelievable ones in the late 1800s.
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Touring Nebraska Orchards in 1872
Even before the emergence of Arbor Day, Nebraska tree enthusiasts would get together. In October 1872, J. Sterling Morton and 100 of his friends went on a huge Nebraska ...
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