New Year’s Balls at Alliance, 1903
On New Year's Eve in 1903 Alliance was the scene of two well-attended holiday balls. The Alliance Semi-Weekly Times of January 1, 1904, called the first, held in honor ...
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What We Found
Mosby in Nebraska: “These Fences Must Come Down!”
John S. Mosby (1833-1916), the "Gray Ghost," commanded a Confederate cavalry unit during the Civil War. After the war he served as U.S. consul to Hong Kong (1878-1885) ...
Moving the Courthouse
Virtually every county in Nebraska has had a county seat fight. In Box Butte County Nonpareil was designated the first county seat after the county was formed in 1886, ...
Flashback Friday: “I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”
A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in the Lakota (Sioux) as harvesters, ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Bicycles in Alliance, NE
May is National Bike Month. Today’s Throwback Thursday Photo features three men on the streets of Alliance, Nebraska enjoying the benefits of cycling in July 1891. The ...
Exaggeration Postcards
Postcards, like photographs and moving images, have been used to document a locality's history. In rare cases, "exaggeration" postcards were used to advertise ...
A Theater Where Every Movie is Scary
The Alliance Theater building began as the Charter Hotel in 1903 and became a theater in 1938. Theater employees have reported seeing shadowy figures, hearing footsteps ...
Carhenge
In the summer of 1987 Jim Reinders, with the help of family members, built a replica of Stonehenge just north of Alliance along Highway 87. Carhenge consists of ...
An Old Carnegie Reimagined as a New Home for the Arts
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 ...
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