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Nebraska's History | Your family's future Recent News and Articles
Nebraska History Spotlight: Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park
(May 1, 2024)
The Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park is a tourism gem where the history of German Mennonites from Russia, along with the history of the town ...
Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Marker Monday: Camp Clarke Bridge and Sidney Black Hills Trail
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Just north of here the Camp Clarke bridge crossed the North Platte River. The bridge was built in the spring of 1876 by entrepreneur Henry T. ...
Arbor Day Origins
Arbor Day began inauspiciously as one of a number of efforts to encourage the planting of trees in barren Nebraska. The State Board of Agriculture had offered a prize of ...
Native Americans along the Trails at Chimney Rock
While the land was unknown to emigrants during their travels on the trails across Nebraska, it had been home to several Indigenous tribes for thousands of years. They ...
Marker Monday: Phelps County
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The great immigrant roads to the West which followed the Platte River brought the first settlers to this area. Beginning in the late 1850's, ...
