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1500 Hickory St. 42°24′45″N 96°25′04″W / 42.41254°N 96.4177°W / 42.41254; -96.4177 (Emmanuel Lutheran Church) Dakota City. One of Nebraska's oldest known churches, built in 1860 as the state's first Lutheran house of worship and one of its only Greek Revival churches of any denomination.
Headquarters. 1500 R Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. Agency executive. Cindy S. Drake, Interim Director and CEO. Website. History Nebraska (Official Site) Nebraska State Historical Society, formerly History Nebraska, formerly the Nebraska State Historical Society is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and ...
The Great Road Historic District is a historic district in Lincoln, Rhode Island, commemorating a portion of Rhode Island's oldest highway, dating back to 1683. Great Road served as the main connection between Providence, Hartford and Worcester during colonial times. The district includes a 0.6-mile (0.97 km) section of the road, which winds ...
The Nebraska home for dependent children (originally, Home for the Friendless) was an American charitable organization situated at the corner of Eleventh and South streets, [1] in Lincoln, Nebraska. This Home was duly incorporated in 1876. So many came for protection that in 1881, the legislature made an appropriation of US$5,000 for the ...
There are 109 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Another 6 properties were once listed but have been removed. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024.[2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
The Old Ashton Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early 18th-century industrial area along Lower River Road in Lincoln, Rhode Island. It includes the site of the first textile mill in Lincoln, which was established in 1810–15, and whose original mill building no longer survives. The proprietors of the mill built a series ...
The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 1862 during the 1860s, and in 1867 was admitted to the Union as the 37th U.S. state.
One of the first segments of Interstate 80 completed in Nebraska linked Lincoln to Omaha in 1961 [38] and was largely open to traffic in 1962. [39] Around the time, Lincoln had only four interchanges: Waverly , U.S. 77, Interstate 180 and West Lincoln (U.S. 34/Nebraska 2). Speed limit during the early days of I-80 in Nebraska was 75 mph (120 km/h).