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The Nebraska Ordnance Plant is a former United States Army ammunition plant located approximately ½ mile south of Mead, Nebraska and 30 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska in Saunders County. It originally extended across 17,250 acres (69.8 km 2 ) producing weapons from 1942-45 after which the Army used it as a bomb factory during the Vietnam War.
The impact on the city of Hastings was a 40% population increase from just over 15,000 in 1940 to 22,252 at its peak during the war. By 1944, workers' base wages at the depot were 74 cents an hour with time-and-a-half for overtime beyond 54- to 64-hour workweeks, considerably higher than the 40- to 50-cents per hour in town and maybe a dollar a ...
Hastings is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 25,152 at the 2020 census , making it the 8th most populous city in Nebraska . Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in Hastings in 1927; the town celebrates the invention with the Kool-Aid Days festival every August.
Location of Adams County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Nebraska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Tri-Cities is an area of Nebraska consisting of the cities of Grand Island, Hastings, and Kearney.It has a population of 174,530 as of 2020. [1] [2] [3] The Tri-Cities region is not an official Metropolitan Statistical Area or Combined Statistical Area, however the region would be Nebraska's third largest if it was, behind Lincoln but ahead of Sioux City.
Adams County, Nebraska, was established on February 16, 1867, and named in honor of John Adams, the second President of the United States. The first settlers began to arrive in the late 1860s, following the Homestead Act of 1862 , which encouraged settlement by providing land to those who would develop and farm it.
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