One of a series of cards with lithographed images of various sights, the caption reads: Departure from Omaha.

ID: 363 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG3761.PH000023-000016 ~ Date: 1875 circa
This file appears in: Original Union Pacific Main Line through Papillion
One of a series of cards with lithographed images of various sights, the caption reads: Departure from Omaha.
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One of a series of cards with lithographed images of various sights, the caption reads: Departure from Omaha.

This file appears in: Original Union Pacific Main Line through Papillion

By The Explore Nebraska History team
Approximately thirty feet south of here in 1865 the Union Pacific Railroad laid its original track extending from the Missouri River in Omaha, south up Mud Creek to Papillion Creek, and northwesterly along West Papillion Creek. Although Chief…