Marker Monday: Lewis and Clark Campsite September 7, 1804
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the story of one day in the years-long ...
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Marker Monday: Grand Island Veterans Home
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments, places in our state's past.
Today, we're highlighting the Grand Island Veterans Home marker. ...
Marker Monday: Potter and the Union Pacific Railroad
Marker Location
Potter Depot Museum. 845 Front Street, Potter, Cheyenne County, Nebraska
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Potter began as a small Union Pacific Railroad ...
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: Lodgepole and the Union Pacific Railroad
Location
751-799 McCall St, Lodgepole, Cheyenne County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 41.148847, -102.6349
Marker Text
The history of Lodgepole has ...
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: St Johns Lutheran Church
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German Lutheran families began settling in the rich valley of the North Fork of the Elkhorn River in 1869, near what became the city of Pierce. These ...
Marker Monday: St Wenceslaus Catholic Cemetery Warsaw
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The cemetery was established in 1876, one year after the first settlers of the Czech club “Slovania” arrived in the Warsaw vicinity. The plot was donated ...
Marker Monday Capitol Hill
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This site on Capitol Hill was for a decade the location of Nebraska’s second territorial capitol. The building was erected here in 1857 and 1858 and ...
Marker Monday: The Cheyenne Breakout
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On September 9, 1878, after a year of suffering on an Oklahoma reservation, some 300 Northern Cheyenne Indians began a trek back to their homeland. ...
Marker Monday: Rebecca Winters
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Rebecca Winters, daughter of Gideon Burdick, a drummer boy in Washington’s army, was born in New York State in 1802. She was a pioneer in the Church of the ...
Marker Monday: Ward Bond’s Boyhood Home
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the childhood home of Ward Bond, an actor who ...
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