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 ...
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What We Found
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: The Blizzard of 1888
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On January 12, 1888, a sudden fierce blizzard slashed across the Midwest. The temperature fell to between 30 and 40 degrees below zero. A howling northwest ...
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 ...
Marker Monday: World War II Hero Charles Jackson French
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The “Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French Post Office” is named in honor of an Omaha sailor. Born in Arkansas, French moved to Omaha to live ...
Marker Monday: DeWitty – An African American Settlement in the Sandhills
Spread out along the North Loup River west of here, DeWitty, later known as Audacious, was the largest and longest-lasting African American settlement in rural ...
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: Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, four-star general in the U.S. Army, was born in Platte Center, Nebraska, on March 3, 1899, to Christian and Mary Shea ...
Marker Monday: Sandhill Cranes
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The Big Bend of the Platte River in central Nebraska is one of the most important staging areas for the spring migration of the world’s largest ...
Marker Monday: Irish Capital of Nebraska
O'Neill, proclaimed the Irish Capital of Nebraska by the Governor in 1969.
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Marker Monday: Bess Streeter Aldrich
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“Love is more like a light that you carry .... that is what love is to a woman - a lantern in her hand,” says Abbie Deal the courageous heroine in Bess ...
Marker Monday: Evelyn Sharp
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Evelyn Genevieve Sharp was Nebraska’s best-known aviatrix during her eight-year career. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Sharp and was born ...
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