Tales from Frontier Courtrooms
Before the grand brick or stone edifices, wood-framed courthouses were a big step forward from pioneer-era accommodations. Shown here is the first Saunders County ...
Saunders County
What We Found
A Hair Hoax
It was the style during the 1880s and 1890s for women to augment their own long hair with carefully matched hair from other humans or animals. Nebraska women usually ...
Ashland, the First Saunders County Seat
William H. Ashby
Relatively few ex-Confederates chose to locate in Nebraska Territory following the close of the Civil War. One who did was William H. Ashby, a ...
Ashland, the First Saunders County Seat
First Saunders County Courthouse, built at Ashland in 1870. NSHS RG1121.PH8-28 (above).
An unusual feature of the boundary of Nebraska’s Saunders County is Ashland ...
Wahoo in World War I: The Photographs of Arthur L. Anderson
The year 2014 was the centenary of the beginning of World War I. Although the war began in Europe with a chain of events arising from the assassination of Archduke Franz ...
Timeline Tuesday: An 1880s Hair Hoax
Five young women style hair in a tent in this photo taken near Monroe, Nebraska around 1905. RG5762-16
It was the style during the 1880s and 1890s for ...
Cool Off with Nebraska’s Ice Industry
Today a manmade lake in Saunders County is part of a recreation area, but the lake itself was not made for recreation. It was made for ice. Memphis State Recreation Area ...
When the women of Wahoo’s JFK College took on the Chinese national basketball team, 1973
By David L. Bristow
May 24, 2023
Fifty years ago the women’s basketball team of tiny John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo traveled to China for a series ...
Marker Monday: The Armour and Company Icehouse
Marker Text
The Armour and Company Icehouse was built in 1897-98 northwest of Memphis, Nebraska. It was one of the largest ...
The Czech-American Experience
In 1993 we published a special issue of Nebraska History titled “The Czech-American Experience.” It remains one of the most popular issues we’ve ever published, and ...
Football is a Crime
The Anti-Football Bill:
In the Legislature of 1897, J. N. Gaffin, a farmer from Saunders County, introduced a bill to make football illegal. A violation would bring a ...
Yutan Tornado – March 23, 1913
Most Nebraskans remember the devastating tornado outbreak of March 23, 1913, for the destruction it wrought in Omaha, but there were other communities devastated by the ...
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