Marker Monday: Ash Hollow Geology
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Ash Hollow is a focal point for understanding the geologic history of the Central Great Plains prior to the onset of the Great Ice Age. It is the type ...
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What We Found
Marker Monday: The Soldiers’ Monument
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On March 27, 1879, George G. Meade Post 19, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Nebraska, was founded in Sutton by twenty former Union ...
Marker Monday: Tornado Hill
Seven tornadoes struck Grand Island and surrounding areas on the night of June 3, 1980.
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Seven tornadoes struck Grand Island and ...
Marker Monday: The Sage Brothers
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on the tragic tale of three brothers from Niobrara who all ...
Marker Monday: The Loup City Riot, 1934
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the 1934 Loup City Riot, which was sparked by ...
Marker Monday: Pibel Lake Recreation Area
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Pibel Lake Recreation Area grew out of an 1897 irrigation claim for ...
Marker Monday: Prisoners of War in Dundy County
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In May 1944 German prisoners of war from Camp Atlanta, Nebraska, were sent to a side camp near here to help area farmers complete the 1943 corn ...
Marker Monday: The O.K. Store
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The first settlers of Hall County, Nebraska, nearly all of whom were German immigrants, arrived on July 5, 1857. They platted Grand Island City and ...
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: 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: 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 ...
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