Grove Park Inn

The Grove Park Inn, built by Edwin Wiley Grove, is an earnest attempt to erect an honest building with no substitution of contemporary popular design for classic construction forms, all the more remarkable because an amateur architect designed it during ...

Ottari Sanitarium

The Ottari Sanitarium was built by a prominent osteopathic physician, Dr. William Banks Meacham, in 1912. Osteopathy is a medical therapy that uses bone manipulation as a corrective technique. Dr. Meacham was a leader in his field. He held degrees ...

Weaverville United Methodist Church

Methodism in the Reems Creek Valley of north central Buncombe County has a rich history dating to 1805 when pioneer John Weaver built a log Methodist meeting house on a ridge overlooking his cabin and farm. From 1919 to 1920, ...

Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District

The Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District is nestled in a beautiful cove between two heavily forested ridges of the Swannanoa Mountains, a range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Assembly was founded in 1912, due ...

Black Mountain College Historic District

The Black Mountain College Historic District, currently known as Camp Rockmont for Boys, is located three miles from Black Mountain. Six hundred acres, a portion of the original tract, is primarily meadowlands of the Great Craggy Mountains, which is divided ...

The Road to Omaha

Presented by

College World Series of Omaha, Inc.

to the City of Omaha

June 7, 1999

In Celebration of 50 Years of NCAA

Division I Baseball Championship Games

in Omaha

John Lajba, Sculptor

Moved from its Original Location

At Omaha’s Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium

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Rededicated at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha

To Continue ...

Hanscom Park Flower Garden

Land for Hanscom Park was donated in 1872 by Andrew J. Hanscom and James Megeath. Improvements including flower beds, lakes, cascades and fountains greatly changed the site’s rugged character. In time, the park was referred to as “one of the ...

Hanscom Park Lagoon

Hanscom Park, Omaha’s oldest remaining park, was designed by landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland in 1889. Early improvements were described in the 1898 Park Commissioner’s Report: “Two lakes, a cascade, extensive flower beds, two and one-half miles of macadamized roadway, fountains ...

People, Places, and Stories

The joint efforts of many individuals and groups – among them military men and scientists, a president and an enslaved man, French-speaking boatmen and American Indians, women and men – determined the fate of the Corps of Discovery. Today, more ...

Preserving Our Heritage

The Midwest Regional Office, located in Omaha since 1937, assists NPS sites across the heartland of the United States. Inside this building, more than 200 people – from architects to wildland fire managers – work to sustain the heritage of ...