Nebraska Territory – A Trip into the Interior, 1858
The Nebraska City News of June 17, 1858, included a letter from an unidentified traveler who had recently made "A Trip into the Interior," and wished to share ...
Beatrice
What We Found
Flashback Friday: How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow!”: Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s
1910 photo of the Beatrice Public Library, Beatrice, Nebraska.
The decade of the 1870s was a period of enormous growth and prosperity for the city of Beatrice. Founded ...
The Beatrice Starch Manufacturing Company
The NSHS Archives holds a small collection relating to the Beatrice Starch Manufacturing Company of Beatrice, Nebraska. The collection consists of a minute book which ...
The Naming of Beatrice, Nebraska
On April 22, 1857, on board the steamer Hannibal anchored on the Missouri River, a small group of passengers met to form a settlement organization, which they named “The ...
A Little Piece of Music History
The Library/Archives recently acquired a scrapbook relating to Donald Abbott of Beatrice and then Lincoln, Nebraska. Abbott was born in Illinois in 1912 and later moved ...
How Shall We Make Beatrice Grow?
How does one transform a prairie town into a thriving cultural center? When a town desires to strengthen the moral fiber of its citizens, protect its young people from ...
No Riding on the Sidewalk!
Tom Mooney, Curator of Manuscripts at History Nebraska ran across a booklet containing the Ordinances of the City of Beatrice, Nebraska from the year 1885 recently and ...
Harrison Johnson’s History of Nebraska
“Our work is done,” wrote Harrison Johnson (1822-1885) as he concluded his History of Nebraska, published in 1880. “The volume is completed, and only awaits the ...
Beatrice Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Before automobiles and radios made the world a smaller place, it could be challenging for adults in rural areas to gain access to the kinds of cultural and educational ...
Beatrice, Crete, and Schuyler Downtown Historic Districts Now Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Corner of 11th and C Streets, view west, 1953. Photo courtesy of City of Schuyler
The historic downtown districts of Beatrice, Crete, and Schuyler are now ...
Weird Wednesday: “Wild Bill” James Hickok Legend is born
On this day in 1861, one man shoots another and a legend is born.
Before the Civil War, James Butler Hickok was a driver for Russell, Majors, & Waddell, who ...
Albert Lamborn Green drawings
Albert Lamborn Green (1845-1947), a Quaker, was appointed as the Indian agent for the Otoe tribe by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. He wrote and illustrated an ...
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