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 ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Japanese Balloon Bombs
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During World War II the Japanese built some nine thousand hydrogen-filled, paper balloons to carry small bombs to North America, hoping to set ...
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: 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: 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, ...
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, ...
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: 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: 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 ...
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