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 ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: Custer County’s First Courthouse
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on the private residence that eventually became Custer ...
Marker Monday: Lost Airmen of World War II
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On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper ...
Marker Monday: Discovery Oil Well – Marathon Oil Company
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today's subject is the Discovery Oil Well, which marks the spot of ...
Marker Monday: Coffee Siding
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today, we're focusing on an important shipping point for Nebraska's ...
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: Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi & International Expo. & Indian Congress of 1898
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William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight ...
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: 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: 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: The 100th Meridian
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The 100th longitudinal line west of Greenwich was the major goal set by Congress in building the first transcontinental railroad. ...
Marker Monday: Oketo Cutoff
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From October 1862 until March 1863 stagecoaches of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express passed near here along the Oketo ...
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