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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W1_congregational-church-of-blair_Blair-NE.html
Religous institutions have played an important role in the history of Nebraska. During the frontier period, churches fulfilled both the spiritual and social needs of the early inhabitants. The Congregational Church was one of Nebraska's pioneer de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VW_desoto-townsite_Blair-NE.html
The town of DeSoto was platted on this site in 1854 and incorporated in 1855. Steamboating on the Missouri was then in its heyday. DeSoto provided a landing for passengers and goods. A number of boats sank nearby, notably the Cora and Bertrand. Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VB_brewster-cemetery_Blair-NE.html
Founded in 1870 by Israel Swihart, the cemetery was named for his wife, Mary Brewster Swihart. Those buried here include three civil war veterans, and several children who succumbed to the harsh conditions of life on the Great Plains. The cemetery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4UN_lewis-and-clark-campsites_Blair-NE.html
On August 3 Lewis and Clark held a council with the Oto and Missouria Indians at a site they named "Council Bluff," near present Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. It was the first of many councils they would hold on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. Follo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4UM_cuming-city-cemetery-and-nature-preserve_Blair-NE.html
Traditionally known as the Cuming City Cemetery, this eleven-acre tract of land was set aside in 1976 primarily as a preserve for native vegetation. Never plowed, this prairie looks much like it did to the Indians and to the first white men who se…
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