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WWI Red Cross Canteen
As troop trains began moving in late 1917, it became clear that soldiers needed food between stops at military installations. U.S. Secretary of War Newton Baker requested assistance from the Red…
Dana College
Dana College was rooted in Trinity Seminary, the first Danish Lutheran seminary in the United States, and established in 1884. Its graduates fanned out across the nation to serve Danish immigrant…
Fonner Park
Due to financial hardships, the former 80-acre Hall County fairground was sold in 1932. In April 1953 area farmers, ranchers, and civic leaders founded two organizations to establish a new permanent…
Farmstead Resettlement Community
During the Great Depression, millions of Americans lost their jobs, savings, and homes. Within his first 100 days in office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to deliver on his New Deal promise to…
Rerouting of the Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, was completed in 1915. As the number of automobiles on the highway increased, concerns about highway safety grew along with it. In 1922 the…
Johnny Carson: Performer and Philanthropist
Born in Iowa, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) grew up in Norfolk at 306 S. 13th St. A performer from an early age, he graduated from Norfolk High School in 1943, served in the navy, graduated from the…
The "Dry Land" Bridge
In 1884 Congress first proposed the Burt County Missouri River Bridge. In 1946 the Corps of Engineers approved the construction of a traffic bridge at Decatur to be placed over the uncompleted…
Farm Families Displaced
In February 1942 U.S. Senator George Norris announced the selection of a central Nebraska site for a new military ordnance plant. On March 25 a condemnation action was filed in federal court against…
Schimmer's Lake
Martin Schimmer, owner of Sand Krog Tavern, desired to create a recreational lake south of Grand Island. Excavation of a 20-acre man-made lake and construction of a Wood River diversion dam was…
Doniphan 1887 Fire
Hall County Sheriff Wedgwood received a telegram from W.J. Burger of Doniphan on November 27, 1887, informing him that half the town was in ashes. The previous evening residents of Doniphan reported…
Cairo: Oasis of the Prairie
Cairo (pronounced 'Care-Oh') began as a railroad town along the Burlington line. Agents of the Lincoln Land Company, a Burlington subsidiary, purchased the Hall County farmsteads of George and Henry…
Japanese Hall
Japanese Hall was moved to the Legacy of the Plains Museum in 2019 from 1705 Avenue C, in Scottsbluff. Built by Japanese immigrants in 1928, the building served as a social hall, worship space,…
Kay Cover, "Let Her Fly!"
Softball gained popularity in Nebraska during the Great Depression and World War II as an athletic opportunity for girls and women. It continued to be a source of underappreciated community…
Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School
The U.S. Indian Industrial School in Genoa was in operation from 1884 to 1934. Built on land that was formerly part of the Pawnee reservation, it is the only federal Indian boarding school in Nebraska…
Toⁿgwoⁿgthoⁿ Tonga
An important Omaha Indian village called Tonwongthon Tonga (Large Village) stood on Omaha Creek in this area. Founded about 1775, within 20 years the earthlodge town had a population of around 1,100.…
Marion Lux Carnegie Medal
Near this location, on September 26, 1907, 18-month old Gladys Dixon followed her elder sisters as they left for school. Their home being near the A. & N. track, the children usually took this route…
World War II Hero Charles Jackson French
The “Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French Post Office” is named in honor of an Omaha sailor. Born in Arkansas, French moved to Omaha to live with his older sister after his parents died. He…
The Ponca Villages
Present-day Ponca, Nebraska, is near the first village built by the Ponca in the early 1600s after they separated from the Omaha and became their own tribe. Like the Omaha, they lived in…
The Rev. Hiram Hisanori Kano, Issei Activist
Father Kano (1899-1988) was the son of a prominent family in Japan. He studied agriculture at the Imperial University in Tokyo. Kano’s family hosted William Jennings Bryan, who convinced Hiram to…
Nebraska's Big Rodeo
When Burwell residents put on a local rodeo in 1921, the event was so successful that they made it an annual affair and built a permanent facility.
Nebraska’s Big Rodeo (NBR), its official name…
Papillion Boy Scouts' Cabin
Scouting was introduced to Papillion in 1913 with the formation of Boy Scout Troop 1. In 1921, the village granted permission to the troop’s scoutmaster, Rev. B. Johansen, to build a log cabin as the…
Missionary Society of St. Columban
The Columban Fathers were founded in Ireland by Fathers Edward Galvin
(later Bishop) and John Blowick for missionary work in China. Recognized by the Vatican in 1918, the society is named for St.…
St. John's Lutheran Church
German Lutheran families began settling in the rich valley of the North Fork of the Elkhorn River in 1869, near what became the city of Pierce. These families established their own congregation on…
Bowling Lake
Bowling Lake is named in honor of Captain Russell Bowling whose B-47 bomber crashed while landing at Lakenheath, England, on July 27, 1956. The lake and a lodge were built by the airmen of the Lincoln…
Norden Dance Hall
The first Keya Paha County Fair was held in September 1898. Ever since, the center of the fair’s activities has been the Barn Dance. The current fairground was purchased in 1921. A new dance hall was…
Alkali Station
Alkali Station played several important roles as a stopping place on the Overland Trail between 1859 and 1867. Established as a stagecoach relay station, it served as a Pony Express station in…
Howard County Courthouse
The first homestead claim in Howard County was filed on March 11, 1871. St. Paul was appointed the county seat in May, and retained that title over Dannebrog in a close 1874 election. A wooden…
Platte Valley Academy
On this site stood a boarding high school owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church, founded to give young people in this region an opportunity to receive a Christian education.…
Smith-Anderson Attack
On February 5, 1862, Joseph P. Smith, his young sons William and Charles, and his grandchild Alexander Anderson were murdered while collecting logs along the north channel of the Platte River. While…
Grand Island Veterans Home
First known as the Nebraska Soldiers and Sailors Home, the Grand Island Veterans Home was opened in 1887. The first home was a four-story Victorian building situated on 640 acres. The building soon…