Marker Monday: Weeping Water Academy
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the Weeping Water Academy, which helped to ...
Marker Monday
What We Found
Marker Monday: Governor Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on Nebraska's 27th governor, who presided over ...
Marker Monday: Hastings Chautauqua Pavilion
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on the largest Chautauqua Pavilion in Nebraska, ...
Marker Monday: The Loup City Riot, 1934
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the 1934 Loup City Riot, which was sparked by ...
Marker Monday: Coffee Siding
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on an important shipping point for Nebraska's ...
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 ...
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
Marker Text
Potter began as a small Union Pacific Railroad ...
Marker Monday: Hartington, Home of Two Nebraska Governors
Marker Text
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
Marker Text
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 ...
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