Marker Monday: Ponca Trail of Tears – White Buffalo Girl
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight the important stories in our state's past.
Today, we're focusing on a sad story: the death of White Buffalo Girl ...
Marker Monday
What We Found
Marker Monday: Central High School
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The first session of Omaha High School, now Central High School, was held on November 10, 1859, in Nebraska's territorial capitol on ...
Marker Monday: Mitchell & Ketchum Homesteads
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The most infamous Nebraska showdown between settlers and cattlemen began in 1878 on the Custer County homesteads of Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum, ...
Marker Monday: Burlington Depot
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Built in 1897, the main section of Red Cloud’s Burlington Depot contained sleeping quarters on the second floor, and freight room, agent’s office, and ...
Marker Monday: The North Bottoms
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The North Bottoms neighborhood was settled by Germans from Russia beginning in the 1870s. During the preceding century they had colonized in Russia, ...
Marker Monday: John G. Neihardt Study
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The building was erected on this site in the 1890s for August Hartman and used as a residence by various owners until 1964. Poet John G. Neihardt ...
Marker Monday: Malcolm X
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born Malcolm Little at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925. He was the son of Earl and Louise Little, ...
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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Marker Monday: Kearney Cotton Mill
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In the late 1880’s, Kearney business leaders envisioned the city as a major manufacturing center. The Kearney Cotton Mill was among the many ...
Marker Monday: Cather Childhood Home
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Built ca. 1876, this is the house in which Willa Cather lived from 1884 to 1890. She describes it in “Old Mrs. Harris,” in “The Best Years,” and in ...
Marker Monday: Nebraska School for the Deaf
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Nebraska School for the Deaf, established in ...
Marker Monday: Phelps County
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The great immigrant roads to the West which followed the Platte River brought the first settlers to this area. Beginning in the late 1850's, ...
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