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Chadron State College
Chadron was selected as the site of the fourth Nebraska State Normal School on January 8, 1910, and located on the grounds of the former Chadron Congregational Academy. Classes began in the summer of…
Anselmo
Anselmo began as a railroad town along the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. The Burlington needed a stop for water, coal, and switching facilities. It built a depot, and the town itself was…
Deer Park Hotel
Deer Park Hotel was located near this site. Established in 1880, the roadhouse was a large building made of native logs. It was built just opposite the Niobrara River from the Fort Niobrara…
The Kearney Army Air Field
Following U.S. entry into World War II, Kearney officials campaigned for
establishment of an army air field at the site of the Keens Municipal Airport. Construction of the Kearney Army Air Field…
Baled Hay Construction
The invention of mechanical balers in the mid-1800s led to the use of bales of hay or straw as building blocks. Pioneer builders developed structural bale walls using cuttings of either native prairie…
Hastings College Campus Historic District
In 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s
Readjustment Act, known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. This ushered in
sweeping changes to America’s colleges and universities by…
McCormick Hall
McCormick Hall opened in 1884. It is named for Cyrus McCormick,
inventor of the mechanical reaper, who donated $5,000 to help finance
construction of the building. The first building on the…
Salem Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church
The Salem Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1883. This area, including portions of Kearney, Phelps, and Harlan counties, once had the largest number of Swedish immigrants in rural…
Vivian Strong
On June 24, 1969, 14-year-old Vivian Strong was shot and killed by James Loder, a white police officer, while leaving a party in the Logan Fontenelle public housing complex. Vivian was one of many…
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Founded in 1877, Pleasant Hill Cemetery was used until 1918. The cemetery contains graves of Civil War veterans along with other settlers and their children. Pleasant HillUnited Brethren Church stood…
Potter and the Union Pacific Railroad
Potter began as a small Union Pacific Railroad settlement and depot midway between Kimball and Sidney. The station house was built by Union Pacific in 1870 and, as the only building in the settlement,…
Louis Crompton: LGBTQA+ Advocate
Louis Crompton joined the English department faculty at UNL in 1955. While at UNL in fall 1970, Crompton taught the first interdisciplinary gay studies class in the nation. Later that same year, he…
Potter's Field
In 1887, Douglas County purchased this 5 ½-acre field from nearby Forest Lawn to use as a cemetery for poor and unidentified people. It was named Potter’s Field, a traditional title from the New…
Tornado Hill
Seven tornadoes struck Grand Island and surrounding areas on the night of June 3, 1980. They were part of a supercell thunderstorm complex that produced eighteen tornadoes from Nebraska to West…
Long Pine - A Railroad Town
Like many Nebraska communities, Long Pine’s history is tied to railroad development. When the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley line arrived in 1881, Long Pine became a bustling railroad town.…
French Settlement of Julian
The first French people in this area were trappers and traders along the Missouri River. Permanent French settlers began to arrive during the 1850s. Among the early settlers were Julien Bahuaud and…
Lone Willow
A single willow tree on the banks of Antelope Creek served as a landmark along the Gordon Trail for settlers, fur traders, and Native Americans.
In 1885, Reverend John Scamahorn and 104 settlers…
Hastings Brickyard Park
Brickmaking in Hastings began in 1878, six years after the town was established. A year later much of the downtown was destroyed by fire in September 1879. Following the fire, the city passed an…
Nemaha River Falls
In 1850, a group of pioneers from Maryland founded a small community on the banks of the swift-moving Nemaha River. Known as Falls Mills, the settlement was near the junction with the Missouri River…
Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant
Commonly known as the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant, the facility opened in 1942 and covered nearly 20 square miles. During World War II it produced artillery shells and various bombs weighing up to 2,000…
Indianola POW Camp
The US built prisoner of war camps across the country during World War II. One such camp opened north of Indianola. It held mostly German soldiers captured in North Africa and Italy. Prisoners began…
Heber Hord House
Built in 1906 and remodeled in 1923, this was the home of cattleman Heber Hord until his death in 1949. Hord was the only son of Thomas Benton (T.B.) Hord, who founded a livestock feeding company…
Marshall Nurseries
Brothers George and Chester Marshall founded Marshall Brothers in 1887. Incorporated as Marshall Nurseries in 1916, the tree nursery survived for more than a century, bringing prosperity to Arlington…
Nebraska's Last Dry County
McPherson County was Nebraska’s last “dry” county. No alcohol was sold legally from the county’s founding in 1890 until 2004.
Federal Prohibition began in 1920 with the 18th Amendment.
Supporters…
Shell Creek Pawnee Settlements
By the early 1600s, the ancestors of the Pawnee Nation began consolidating into a few large communities. Each was home to hundreds, if not thousands, of people. Some of these were built along nearby…
The Founding of Oakland
The Aron Arlington family arrived as the area’s first Euroamerican settlers in 1857, later moving near Decatur.
Pioneer Log Cabin
The Beaver Valley was Pawnee land and later attracted hunters, trappers, and settlers to the region. Furnas County was established in 1873 and Beaver City was elected as the county seat. This one-room…
Escape of the Northern Cheyenne
By 1878 more than 300 Northern Cheyennes were desperate to escape their hated reservation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Led by Dull Knife and Little Wolf, they headed for their homeland in the…
Russell, Majors, & Waddell House
The U.S. Army built this house in 1858 as the residence of Quartermaster Major James Martin. The house was sold in 1859 to the Russell, Majors, and Waddell Freighting Company. The company had a…
Nebraska Institute for the Blind
Founded by Samuel Bacon, the school formally opened March 10, 1875, in a rented house at 13th and Cheyenne Streets. The first building was erected on this site and opened January 13, 1876. Originally…