The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad

The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad entered Nebraska at Plattsmouth in 1870 and built west to join the Union Pacific at Kearney Junction (now Kearney city) on September 3, 1872. The railroad bridge into Kearney was used for 104 ...

Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge

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In 1863, Chattanooga was a major railroad hub with a population of 2,500. In late November the city was in Union hands, while Confederate forces occupied Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Both sides struggled for ...

Lucy Laney Elementary School

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On this site, in 1954, Lucy Laney Elementary School was opened with the mission of educating black children in the Waverly Hall, Shiloh, Ellerslie, and surrounding areas. The school was named in honor of Lucy Craft Laney, a famous ...

Chimney Swifts of Northville, New York

Migratory Birds who span approximately 7000 miles from the Amazon jungle of South America to the north country of New York State.

First Study of the Chimney Swifts was made by Walker A. La Rowe of the Northville Rotary ...

Historic Lime Kilns

A hundred years ago, the intense heat from the kiln fires would have kept you at a distance. Shouts and curses in Portuguese and Italian would fill the air as men labored to quarry stone, work the kilns, and haul ...

Lime Creek Burn 1879

This man-caused forest fire burned 26,000 acres consuming approximately 150,000,000 board-feet of timber. Reforestation by direct seeding and planting of seedling trees was started in 1911 and continues today.

The project was financed by federal funds and contributions from the conservation-minded ...

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

National Historic

Civil Engineering Landmark

[American Society of Civil Engineering

1852 Logo]

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

Mesa Verde's industrious Ancestral Puebloans designed, constructed, and maintained Morefield, Box Elder, Far View and Sagebrush Reservoirs for domestic water-storage between A.D. 750 and 1180.

Marker can be reached from ...

The Decline of the Jewish Community of Gerolzhofen from January

Niedergang der Jüdische Gemeinde Gerolzhofen ab 30. Januar 1933

[Marker text in German:]

Urkundlich nachweisbar genehmigte im Jahr 1425 Fürstbischof Johann II v. Brunn die Ansässigmachung von Juden in Gerolzhofen. Viele jüdische Mitbürger engagierten sich im öffentlichen Leben und genossen Vertrauen und ...

Hostetler Amphitheatre

Dedicated in honor and memory

Judge Bruno O. Hostetler

1861 - 1954

Leadership in establishing

college in Kearney

1903

A gift from his daughter

Mrs. Florence H. Raymond

June 19, 1980

Courtesy hmdb.org

Kearney State College Memorial Carillon Tower

In honor of

George and Venetia Peterson

and

Elias and Mary Yanney

The carillon tower reflects the early history of Kearney State College and the Administration Building located adjacent to this site.

The four columns of the carillon tower symbolize the columns that adorned the ...