Fourth of July in Southeast Nebraska, 1884
The Daily State Journal of Lincoln on July 1, 1884, remarked on the upcoming Independence Day: "As it has been decided that Lincoln will not celebrate the glorious ...
Gage County
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 ...
Marker Monday: Oketo Cutoff
Marker Text
From October 1862 until March 1863 stagecoaches of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express passed near here along the Oketo ...
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 ...
Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
When Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York on July 8, 1911, after a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York, it was perhaps the highlight of a long and colorful ...
“Wild Bill” Hickok Court Documents
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-76), a native of Illinois, relocated to Kansas in 1855 and joined the free state forces. Before and during the Civil War, Hickok ...
Barns in Nebraska Territory
Few barns in Nebraska Territory were as substantial as the Elijah Filley Stone Barn, built in 1874 in Gage County. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. ...
Selling Pears by Rail in 1914
We hardly think of pears as rare or exotic fruits anymore, but in 1914 it was a big deal when a refrigerated train car rolled up filled to the brim with pears.
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Found at an Estate Sale: A Trophy from the Year Nebraska Banned Girls’ Basketball Tournaments
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Jim Brogden was browsing an estate sale in Acworth, Georgia, when he noticed this beautiful trophy. It tells a story not only of ...
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