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Category Archives: Nebraska Timeline
Should Casler’s Grave Be Decorated?
By 1929 the ranks of Civil War veterans were thinning. Each year Nebraska cemeteries saw more old soldiers’ graves bedecked with flowers on Decoration Day, as Memorial Day was then known. Yet the last resting place of at least one … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Civil War, Memorial Day, Orlando Casler, Seward, William H. Smith
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The Dandelion Rake
“Kearney has it and has it bad,” said the Kearney Daily Hub on May 14, 1902. “The dandelion is taking the town, literally overrunning it from end to end, covering lawns and terraces, and furnishing ‘greens’ enough to supply the … Continue reading
Celebrating Mother’s Day
In the United States the celebration of the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day dates to efforts by Anna Jarvis to establish such a day honoring her own and other mothers. She organized a church service to celebrate her … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Ashton C. Shallenberger, Elmer Burkett, Mother's Day
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Rhubarb, the Pie Lover’s Delight
Rhubarb, a plant well known to pie and dessert lovers in Nebraska, has a long history in this state. Its use as a substitute for fruit in a newly settled country where fruit growing was limited made it popular with … Continue reading
Soldier’s Free Homestead Colony of Gibbon
On April 7, 1871, a Union Pacific emigrant train, bearing the members of the Soldier’s Free Homestead Colony, arrived at Gibbon siding in Buffalo County and switched off a few cars that were to house the colonists until they could … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Gibbon, John Thorp, Soldier's Free Homestead Colony
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The Death of Col. William McCord, First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry
April 6-7 marks the 150th anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh (aka Pittsburg Landing) in Tennessee, one of two major Civil War battles in which the First Nebraska Regiment participated. Commanding the regiment at Shiloh, as he had done … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Civil War, First Nebraska Regiment, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, William D. McCord
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The Bachelors’ Protective Union of Kearney
When the Bachelors’ Protective Union gave a gala reception for two of its newly married (former) members and their brides in March of 1890, the social club for young, single business and professional men was already well known in Kearney. … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Bachelors’ Protective Union, Kearney, Midway Hotel
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Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
When Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York on July 8, 1911, after a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York, it was perhaps the highlight of a long and colorful career as an oriental dancer, sharpshooter, trick roping … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged Buffalo Bill, Nan Aspinwall, Norfolk, Wild West
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Mystery Grave in Boyd County
Like something out of detective fiction, a crew digging a trench found an unmarked grave in a rural field where no graves were known to exist. This 2000 discovery near Lynch, Nebraska, resulted in an excavation led by Nebraska State … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History News, Nebraska Timeline, Publications
Tagged archeology, Boyd County, crime, Jack Richards
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Leap Year Once Viewed as Opportunity for Women
The year 2012 is a leap year, which means that it has 366 days instead of the usual 365 days. The year 1896 was also a leap year and was widely observed in Nebraska with dances, picnics, and other social … Continue reading