Marker Monday: Nebraska’s Big Rodeo
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When Burwell residents put on a local rodeo in 1921, the event was so successful that they made it an annual affair and built a permanent ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Robinson
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Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years ...
Marker Monday: Pershing Rifles
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General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces to Europe in World War I, was Professor of Military Science at the ...
Marker Monday: O.A. Abbott: Nebraska’s First Lieutenant Governor
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Othman Ali (O.A.) Abbott (1842-1935) was a Civil War veteran, pioneer lawyer, Nebraska statesman, and advocate for women's rights. From 1861 to 1865 he ...
Marker Monday: B-17G Flying Fortress and P-47D Thunderbolt Crash, 1944
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On September 8, 1944, P-47 "Thunderbolt" fighters from the Bruning Army Air Field conducted training attack maneuvers with two formations of B-17 ...
Marker Monday: Shell Creek Pawnee Settlements
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By the early 1600s, the ancestors of the Pawnee Nation began consolidating into a few large communities. Each was home to hundreds, if not ...
Marker Monday: Prehistoric Burial Site
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From 1050 - 1400 the lower Platte and Missouri River valleys were home to prehistoric Indian farmers. These people lived in small villages and ...
Marker Monday: St. Edward
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Note: The term “Indian” is used instead of “Native American” or “American Indian” as it was the common usage of the time this marker was cast.
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Marker Monday: The Ponca Villages
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Present-day Ponca, Nebraska, is near the first village built by the Ponca in the early 1600s after they separated from the Omaha and became their own ...
Marker Monday: Johnny Carson
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Born in Iowa, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) grew up in Norfolk at 306 S. 13th St. A performer from an early age, he graduated from Norfolk High School in 1943, ...
Marker Monday: Muir House
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This is the former home of Robert Valentine Muir, an early resident of Brownville. Born in Scotland in 1827, Muir came to America in 1835 and moved ...
Marker Monday: Before Creighton
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Archaeological evidence shows periodic Native American residence in this general area for some 12,000 years. From the mid-1600s to the early 1700s the ...
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