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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TY_fort-atkinson_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
From 1820 to 1827, the nation's largest and most westerly military post occupied this site, the earlier scene of Lewis and Clark's Council Bluff. In late 1819, troops under Colonel Henry Atkinson established Cantonment Missouri along the river nea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TW_the-death-of-marshal-suverkrubbe_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
About 3 a.m. on December 5, 1932, Fort Calhoun marshal Albert Suverkrubbe was shot while trying to apprehend two men fleeing Kruse's Red and White Grocery at 106 S. Fourteenth Street. Suverkrubbe died from his wounds nine days later, leaving his w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FP_the-fort-pierre-fort-laramie-trail_Chadron-NE.html
From about 1837 until 1850, more than a quarter million buffalo robes bought from Indians and 27 tons of fur company trade goods were hauled over the 300 mile long Fort Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail that followed the White River through this area. Fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FO_bordeaux-trading-post_Chadron-NE.html
From about 1846 until 1872, an Indian "trading house" occupied a site near here. Built by James Bordeaux, the trading station was once attacked and set afire by hostile Crow warriors. Fortunately, some friendly Sioux Indians came to the rescue and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EO_fort-robinson_Harrison-NE.html
In March, 1874, the U.S. Government authorized the establishment of a military camp at the Red Cloud Indian Agency on the White River. Home of some 13,000 Indians, many of whom were hostile, the Agency was one of the most troublesome spots on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26B_buffalo-soldiers-at-fort-robinson_Harrison-NE.html
Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years and played an important role in northwestern Nebraska's history. Organized in 1866, the regiments…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VJ_the-mormon-pioneer-trail_Lisco-NE.html
Fleeing heated religious and political hostility and persecution, many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (widely known as Mormons) abruptly fled their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois in February 1846. Unprepared for the cold of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZU_ash-hollow-geology_Big-Springs-NE.html
Ash Hollow is a focal point for understanding the geologic history of the Central Great Plains prior to the onset of the Great Ice Age. It is the type locality of the Ash Hollow Formation, named by Henry Engelmann after a visit in 1858-1859. These…