I-80 150 Years Old
It may sound ludicrous to say that Interstate 80 is 150 years old in 1996, but its antecedent highway, the Mormon Trail, was established in 1846. It essentially followed ...
Mormon Trail
What We Found
Latter-day Saints at Genoa
In mid-May 1857 a small Mormon colony occupied a site in Nebraska Territory called Genoa. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints planned to establish several ...
Mormon Summer Quarters
The establishment of winter Quarters by Mormons headed west in search of Zion in 1846 is well-known. It was located at present-day Florence, the northern-most suburb of ...
Overland Emigrant Photographs
Photography was still in its infancy when emigrants began crossing the Great Plains to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Cumbersome cameras, fragile glass negatives, ...
Marker Monday: Gibbon, 1871-1971
Location
2625 State Highway 10C Link, Gibbon, Buffalo County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 40.706858, -98.84454
Marker Text
Gibbon, on the old Mormon ...
Marker Monday: Rebecca Winters
Marker Text
Rebecca Winters, daughter of Gideon Burdick, a drummer boy in Washington’s army, was born in New York State in 1802. She was a pioneer in the Church of the ...
Emigrants along the Trails at Chimney Rock
When people traveled west on the Oregon, Mormon, California, and other famous trails, they had to decide what to bring with them and what to leave behind. Many of them ...
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