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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM165O_fossil-hills-trail_Harrison-NE.html
The hills held ancient secrets for paleontologists. The two hills in the distance don't look like anything special. Even up close the untrained eye will see nothing astounding. But a sandstone layer near the bases of the hills has yielded one of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM658_the-cheyenne-outbreak_Harrison-NE.html
On September 9, 1878, after a year of suffering on an Oklahoma reservation, some 300 Northern Cheyenne Indians began a trek back to their homeland. Dull Knife's band of 149 Indians were captured and taken to Fort Robinson. For months they refused …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM657_village-of-harrison_Harrison-NE.html
A railroad camp named Summit (elev. 4876 ft.) was located on this site in 1884. When the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad reached here in 1886, an unincorporated townsite named Bowen was platted and designated the county seat of Siou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM64X_coffee-siding_Harrison-NE.html
Large pioneer ranches were established in this region of Nebraska in the 1870's and early 1880's. Charles F. Coffee was one of these pioneers, with ranch headquarters on Hat Creek in Nebraska and Rawhide Creek in Wyoming. By June, 1886, the Fremon…