Marker Monday: Vivian Strong
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On June 24, 1969, 14-year-old Vivian Strong was shot and killed by James Loder, a white police officer, while leaving a party in the Logan ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Sioux Army Depot
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Sioux Army Depot was established on 23 March 1942 as Sioux Ordnance Depot. It was the only U.S. Army Ammunition Depot in Nebraska during World War ...
Marker Monday: Inventor of Center-Pivot Irrigation Machine
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Born in 1894, Frank Zybach grew up in Loup Township, Platte County, Nebraska. He began inventing at age 13. In 1948, he developed a prototype of a ...
Marker Monday: Farm Families Displaced
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In February 1942 U.S. Senator George Norris announced the selection of a central Nebraska site for a new military ordnance plant. On March 25 a condemnation ...
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 ...
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: The Ionia Volcano
Early settlers worried that the so-called Ionia volcano would destroy its namesake town. It nearly did, but with a flood rather than an ...
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 ...
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