Marker Monday: Sandhill Cranes
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The Big Bend of the Platte River in central Nebraska is one of the most important staging areas for the spring migration of the world’s largest ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Inventor of Center-Pivot Irrigation Machine
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Born in 1894, Frank Zybach grew up in Loup Township, Platte County, Nebraska. He began inventing at age 13. In 1948, he developed a prototype of a ...
Marker Monday: Czech Capital
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Many nationalities blended in America and Nebraska to create our great nation and state. Prominent among them were the Czechs. They left a land ...
Marker Monday: Easter Blizzard of 1873
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments, places, and people in our state's past.
Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of ...
Crowdfunded African American Sandhills Settlement Marker Dedication will be April 11, 2016
St. James A.ME. Church at DeWitty, Nebraska. History Nebraska RG2301-1-3
Nebraska’s longest-lasting African American rural settlement will receive a state ...
Marker Monday: Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
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Willa Cather first came to Webster County from Virginia in 1883 at the age of nine. The vast open prairies of Nebraska made a lasting impression on her. ...
Marker Monday: Crook House
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W Rd, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska View this marker's location 41.310261, -95.96013
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On April 27, 1875, General ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska’s Flying Doctor
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on Dr. Frank Brewster of Beaver City and how he ...
Marker Monday: Hartington, Home of Two Nebraska Governors
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This marker, dedicated on the 100th anniversary of Hartington High School, June 25, 1988, is in honor of two graduates who became governors of ...
Marker Monday: Opening the Sandhills
The first ranch in this area was set up on the Niobrara River about five miles south of here in 1877.
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Marker Monday: Irish Capital of Nebraska
O'Neill, proclaimed the Irish Capital of Nebraska by the Governor in 1969.
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Marker Monday: Mari Sandoz
This is the country of Mari Sandoz--historian, novelist, teacher--who brought its history and its people to life in her many books, articles and stories.
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