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Marker Monday: Cather Childhood Home
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Built ca. 1876, this is the house in which Willa Cather lived from 1884 to 1890. She describes it in “Old Mrs. Harris,” in “The Best Years,” and in ...
Yutan Tornado – March 23, 1913
Most Nebraskans remember the devastating tornado outbreak of March 23, 1913, for the destruction it wrought in Omaha, but there were other communities devastated by the ...
The Destruction of Omaha’s Easter Sunday Tornado
While it was absolutely the worse off, Omaha was not the only Nebraska town to get hit by a tornado that day; a total of seven tornados touched down that day. We also ...
Marker Monday: Kearney Cotton Mill
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In the late 1880’s, Kearney business leaders envisioned the city as a major manufacturing center. The Kearney Cotton Mill was among the many ...
No Irish Babies Born in Nebraska in 1912
When the Nebraska State Board of Health released statistics in December 1912 on various aspects of life in this state, it probably didn’t expect to provoke any ...
Victorian Wedding Slippers See New Life
A pair of late-19th-century wedding slippers recently came to the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center for treatment. These shoes are part of the Frontier Army Museum's ...
