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Location of Custer County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Custer County, Nebraska. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
A Lincoln County Historical Society was organized to help raise money for the purchase of Buffalo Bill Cody's house. The group raised $37,500 and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission to cover the other $75,000 required for the purchase. Another $90,000 was planned to be spent on restoring the grounds and buildings. [7]
Custer County. Custer County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 10,545. [1] Its county seat is Broken Bow. [2] The county was formed in 1877 [3] and named after General George Armstrong Custer, [4] who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Butcher was able to save some of his teacher's salary, and to borrow enough more to open the first photography studio in Custer County. The studio was housed in a lath-and-adobe building, measuring 18 by 28 feet (5.5 m × 8.5 m), with a dirt floor and with cotton sheeting in lieu of glass to cover the windows and the skylights.
This example has been termed "the most valuable Lincoln photo in existence" and sold at auction in 2009 for $206,500. [74] April 6, 1861 [75] Mathew Brady [76] Washington, D.C. Giant imperial photograph from original collodion plate [77] Library of Congress Lincoln's drooping left eyelid is clearly visible in this image. May 16, 1861 [78 ...
Prior to the settlement of Lincoln, the land was home to numerous saline wetlands. [3] These wetlands were supported by Salt Creek, a tributary of the Platte. [3]Approaching Lincoln from the east, the first remarkable object that meets the eye of the stranger is a succession of what appears to be several beautiful lakes extending along the lines of Salt Creek to the northward and westward of ...
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,676. [2] Its county seat is North Platte. [3] Despite the county's name, the state capital city of Lincoln is not in or near Lincoln County. Lincoln County is one of the three counties in the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Custer and his wife at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, April 6, 1874. Reportedly at right in gunrack is a Webley RIC used by Custer [15] Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie, lived at Fort Abraham Lincoln from 1873 until Custer died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the summer of 1876. Approximately 500 ...