Marker Monday: Andrew Jackson Higgins
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Andrew Jackson Higgins, designer and manufacturer of World War 11 landing craft known as “Higgins boats,” was born August 28, 1886, at Columbus, ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Nehawka Flint Quarries
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Flint nodules embedded within subsurface Pennsylvanian Formation limestone deposits in this vicinity were an important source of stone used ...
Marker Monday: Sam Bass and the Big Springs Robbery
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on a marker in Big Springs, which commemorates ...
Marker Monday: Republican Pawnee Village
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Near here was a large permanent village of the Republican band of the Pawnee tribe which may have been occupied as early as 1777. On September 25, ...
Marker Monday: Solon H. Borglum “Sculptor of the Prairie”
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Solon H. Borglum (1868-1922), son of Danish Mormon emigrants, was a world-famous sculptor. From 1885 until 1893, Solon ran his father’s cattle ...
Marker Monday: Blue Mills and Glenwood Park
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In 1881 Sylvester Bearss constructed Blue Mills just east of here on Wood River, so-named for a blue clay outcropping. A 30.5-inch Leffel turbine ...
Marker Monday: Pawnee City
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Pawnee City, the county seat of Pawnee County, was platted and the first lots were sold in the spring of 1857. The county, named for the ...
Marker Monday: Catherland
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Here on the Divide between the Republican and the Little Blue lived some of the most courageous people of the frontier. Their fortunes and ...
Marker Monday: Crystal Lake
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In 1893 the Crystal Ice Company dammed a portion of the Little Blue River 1 1/4 miles north of Ayr, creating "Crystal Lake" for harvesting and ...
Marker Monday: Grace Episcopal Church
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Built in 1884 on the corner of Second and Walnut, the Grace Protestant Episcopal Church was moved to its present location in 1891. The brick veneer was ...
Marker Monday: George W. Norris, 1861-1944
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George W. Norris, whose home is on Norris Avenue, McCook, Nebraska, served forty years in the Congress of the United States. Born in Ohio, he worked his way ...
Marker Monday: Scottsbluff Army Air Field
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During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces operated a satellite airfield at this site. In the fall of 1942 twenty-eight farms were vacated ...
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