Marker Monday: Chalk Mine
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today we focus on a site near Scotia, Nebraska once called Happy ...
Marker Monday
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 which ...
Marker Monday: Custer County’s First Courthouse
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the private residence that eventually became Custer ...
Marker Monday: Lincoln’s Founding Block
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The Territorial Legislature at Omaha drew the boundaries of Lancaster County in 1855. Settlers first arrived in 1856 and a county government was ...
Marker Monday: Axtell, Nebraska
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today we're focusing on the village of Axtell, best known as the ...
Marker Monday: Alliance Army Air Field
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In the spring of 1942 the U.S. Army selected a site one mile south of here for an airfield. The dry climate and open landscape afforded ideal ...
Marker Monday: Ainsworth Army Air Field
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Ainsworth Army Air Field, completed on November 30, 1942, was a satellite of Rapid City Army Air Field and under command of the Second Air Force. ...
Marker Monday: Antioch Potash Boom-Town
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past.
Today, we're focusing on Antioch, the Nebraska ghost town that ...
Marker Monday: The University of Nebraska
Chartered as a Land-Grant institution by the first regular session of the State Legislature on February 15, 1869, the University opened its doors to 20 collegiate ...
Marker Monday: First Presbyterian Church of St. Paul
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The congregation was organized in 1879, eight years after the first homestead claim was filed in Howard County. The first church at this location, a ...
Marker Monday: Burton’s Bend
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Note: Historical markers not only designate historic places, they sometimes are historic artifacts themselves. It's difficult to tell complex ...
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