Entertainment
Although Nebraska's first permanent theater, the Omaha Academy of Music, was not opened until 1867, there had been for a decade prior to this time sporadic theatrical ...
Nebraska Territory
What We Found
Nebraska’s First Territorial Capitol
The first legislature of Nebraska Territory was convened January 16, 1855, at Omaha in a brick building erected for the purpose by the Council Bluffs and Nebraska Ferry ...
Fossils
Nebraska has an almost uninterrupted fossil record of the past thirty-five million years, roughly half the time since dinosaurs became extinct. Fossilized remains of ...
French in Nemaha County
The movement of French people into the Nebraska country began before the territory was opened for settlement, the first Frenchmen being trappers or Indian traders. For ...
Furnas, Robert W.
Robert W. Furnas was one of early Nebraska's strongest promoters. Although he gained fame as a soldier, governor, and agriculturist, he was also an influential ...
Cuming City
Cuming City was an early Washington County town named for Thomas B. Cuming, acting governor of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1858. The site was ...
Banking in Nebraska Territory
Nebraska delegate Henry W. Yates addressed the World's Congress of Bankers and Financiers in June of 1894 in Chicago on Nebraska's experience with wildcat banks during ...
Barns in Nebraska Territory
Why is it there are no barns in this Territory?" asked the Nebraska Farmer in December 1861. "In all of the Middle States-even among the very first settlers, a barn was ...
Cook’s Cattle Drive North, 1876
Cattleman James H. Cook first came to Nebraska in 1876 when he helped drive a herd of cattle from Texas. In 1911 he recalled this event: "In the year 1876 I helped to ...
Francis Burt
Francis Burt, a native of Pendleton, South Carolina, served very briefly in 1854 as the first governor of Nebraska Territory. (President Franklin Pierce had first ...
William N. Byers
William Newton Byers played a distinguished role in the histories of both Nebraska and Colorado. Born in Ohio in 1831, he accompanied his parents to Iowa in 1850 and a ...
Nebraska Census
In 1854 the first census takers in Nebraska were fanning out across the territory to get the first accurate count of the state's citizens. The returns, carefully ...
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