Ft. Atkinson Breaks Sod in Preparation for Upcoming Farming Demonstrations
On Dec 6, 2017, a plow sliced through the sod at Ft. Atkinson State Historical Park (SHP) for the first time in 55 years. Ft. Atkinson was the first military post west ...
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What We Found
World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition
The World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition opened in New Orleans on December 16, 1884. As the largest world's fair held in the United States to that date, it attracted ...
J. Sterling Morton’s 1874 State Fair Appeal
J. Sterling Morton really wanted to spice up the 1874 State Fair. His solution? A massive exhibition of crops.
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Grand Island Sugar Palace
Nebraska's sugar beet production began in Grand Island in 1890. To commemorate the birth of a new industry, they threw a party and erected the Grand Island Sugar ...
Throwback Thursday Photograph, Gould’s Grapes
Today’s Throwback Thursday Photograph features two of History Nebraska newest additions to the Photograph Collection. In the first image (at left), workers load baskets ...
Well-traveled collections objects
These items were already heirlooms when they came to Nebraska in a covered wagon.
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Noon Bites Lecture: Learn All About Cattle Brands
Actual cowboy Marlen Luff stopped by the Nebraska History Museum to share what he knows about the history of cattle branding and show off a few of his own brands. Catch ...
Nebraska’s Round Barns
We're all about exploring curiosity. Sometimes, curiosity turns a conversation with a friend into years of study and an article about Nebraska's beautiful round ...
Free As The Wind
In 1925 American manufacturers sold more than 95,000 windmills. Because of rural electrification, sales dwindled to less than 10,000 mills by 1956. This windmill ...
‘I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians’: Non-Indian and Lakota Racial Relationships in Box Butte County’s Potato Industry, 1917-1960
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as harvesters, beginning a ...
Nebraska’s Mexican Communities, 1910-1950
Ten percent of Nebraskans are Latino, part of a statewide community that is more than a century old. At first it was specifically a Mexican and Mexican-American ...
150 Nebraska State Fairs
By David L. Bristow, Editor; video by Josh Beeman
In 2019, Nebraskans celebrated the 150th Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island. Here are some of our favorite state ...
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