Marker Monday: The Fort Robinson Cemetery
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The first recorded interment in the Fort Robinson Cemetery was James Brogan, July 2, 1875; the last was Fred Lester, June 13, 1945. Among the 258 interments ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School
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The U.S. Indian Industrial School in Genoa was in operation from 1884 to 1934. Built on land that was formerly part of the Pawnee reservation, it is the ...
Marker Monday: Kay Cover, “Let Her Fly!”
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Softball gained popularity in Nebraska during the Great Depression and World War II as an athletic opportunity for girls and women. It continued to ...
Marker Monday: Cairo: Oasis of the Prairie
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Cairo (pronounced ‘Care-Oh’) began as a railroad town along the Burlington line. Agents of the Lincoln Land Company, a Burlington subsidiary, ...
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 ...
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: Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home
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Boys Town was founded as a home and school for homeless, abandoned, neglected or otherwise underprivileged boys, regardless of color or creed, by ...
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 ...
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