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
What We Found
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, ...
Marker Monday: Camp Clarke Bridge and Sidney Black Hills Trail
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Just north of here the Camp Clarke bridge crossed the North Platte River. The bridge was built in the spring of 1876 by entrepreneur Henry T. ...
Marker Monday: Broken Bow Town Square
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of Broken Bow through the ...
Marker Monday: Long Pine – A Railroad Town
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Like many Nebraska communities, Long Pine’s history is tied to railroad development. When the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley line arrived ...
Marker Monday: Spade Ranch
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Twenty miles northeast of here is Spade Ranch headquarters, a National Register of Historic Places site. In Ellsworth are the business offices ...
Marker Monday: The Seedling Mile
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, our focus is a preserved section of the Lincoln Highway. It's ...
Marker Monday: The Savidge Brothers, Aviation Pioneers
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Near here was the scene of some of Nebraska's earliest experiments with flight in a heavier-than-air vehicle. Sometime before late 1907, Martin P. ...
Marker Monday: K-9 Training Area, Fort Robinson
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In September 1942 the Fort Robinson War Dog Training Center was established. Barracks, classrooms, administrative offices, and other support ...
Marker Monday: University of Nebraska at Kearney
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In 1903 the legislature appropriated $50,000 to establish a state normal school in central or western Nebraska. After 111 ballots, the State Board of ...
Marker Monday: Atlas D Missile Site A
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During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in October 1957. A perceived “missile ...
Marker Monday: Fremont, Nebraska
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Fremont was laid out in August 1856. The town site was named for John C. Fremont, the new Republican Party’s nominee for president in 1856, ...
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