Giant Glacial Boulder
This boulder is one of the largest "erratics" ever recovered in the Belmont area, and was found in excavations… Read More
Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2738, Denton, Nebraska
The Civilian Conservation Corps was authorized by Congress in 1933 to provide jobs and vocational training… Read More
Fairview
Home of William Jennings Bryan William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois in 1860.… Read More
The Lincoln Regional Center
In 1869 the Nebraska legislature authorized the construction of a facility to care for mentally ill persons.… Read More
Nebraska Statehood Memorial
From 1854 to 1867 the seat of territorial and state government was in Omaha. In 1867 the State Legislature… Read More
Pershing Rifles
General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces to Europe in World War I, was… Read More
Nine-Mile Prairie Memorial
Marguerite Metzger Hall and Neil W. Hall Nine-Mile Prairie Memorial as a living tribute to our Pioneer… Read More
Nine-Mile Prairie
This is one of the largest tracts of virgin prairie remaining in eastern Nebraska. Starting in the 1920s,… Read More
Lincoln aviation personalities before 1930
Lincoln can boast of a colorful parade of fliers in aviation;s formative decades: Joe and Bob Westover… Read More
Lincoln Army Air Field, Lincoln Air Force Base
Lincoln Army Air field was constructed in 1942 on the former lincoln Municipal Airport. The 2,750-acre… Read More
Lincoln’s Emergence as an aviation center
From the heroics of stunt fliers at pre-World War I state fairs through the experimentation of the 1920s,… Read More
The City of Lincoln
Lincoln, the capital city of Nebraska, is situated in a basin which originally attracted both Indians… Read More
The North Bottoms
The North Bottoms neighborhood was settled by Germans from Russia beginning in the 1870s. During the… Read More
Lincoln’s Founding Block
The Territorial Legislature at Omaha drew the boundaries of Lancaster County in 1855. Settlers first… Read More
The Ferguson House
William Henry Ferguson, Lincoln businessman and investor, built this house in 1909-11. It is one of the… Read More
The University of Nebraska
Chartered as a Land-Grant institution by the first regular session of the State Legislature on February… Read More
The Lewis Syford House
Elisha M. Lewis, early Nebraska pastor and missionary, built this French Second Empire style house in… Read More
County-City Building, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
On March 6, 1855, Lancaster County was created by act of the Territorial Legislature. Many early settlers… Read More
Nebraska’s Prairie Plants
These areas of grass and wildflowers are reminiscent of prairie grasslands which once stretched across… Read More
Crounse
Crounse was once a small village named for Lorenzo Crounse, Nebraska Supreme Court justice (1867-73).… Read More
The Nebraska State Historical Society
In 1878 public-spirited citizens, led by former governor Robert W. Furnas, organized the Nebraska State… Read More
Bicentennial Prairie Marker, 1776-1976
You are overlooking original prairie never broken by a plow. Nebraska looked much like this 200 years… Read More