Treasures from Nebraska Museums
The NSHS works hard to collect and preserve Nebraska history, but we don’t do it alone. Historical organizations and museums dot our ninety-three counties and contain ...
Fremont
What We Found
Don Stiegert’s Hanger Machine
Yesterday, I posted a photo of a mystery machine, a recent donation to the Nebraska State Historical Society by Don Stiegert of Fremont.
It really isn’t a mystery at ...
John T. Bell’s Shorthand in the Courtroom
Historian John T. Bell was also one of Nebraska’s earliest court stenographers. NSHS RG2411-384-a
Before the invention of recording and dictation machines, ...
Fremont Man Visits All of Nebraska’s 500-plus Historical Markers
Butch Springgate is the grand champion of Nebraska’s biggest scavenger hunt. If you’ve driven on a Nebraska highway, you’ve even played it. But while you might have ...
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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Fremont’s Love Opera House
In the early twentieth century the Love Opera House provided varied entertainments for residents of Fremont. Local people sometimes appeared there as actors or singers, ...
Drought, trains, and a chicken dinner: FDR’s 1936 campaign stop in Fremont
It was billed as a presidential tour of the drought-stricken areas of the Midwest, but President Franklin Roosevelt was in full campaign mode when his train stopped in ...
Marker Monday: Fremont, Nebraska
Marker Text
Fremont was laid out in August 1856. The town site was named for John C. Fremont, the new Republican Party’s nominee for president in 1856, ...
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