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In 1854 Alfred D. Jones drew four parks on the original map of Omaha City. They were called Jefferson Square, which was paved over by I-480; Washington Park, which is where the Paxton Block currently sits at North 16th and Farnam Streets; Capitol Square, where Omaha Central High School is now located, and; an unnamed tract overlooking the river with Davenport Street on the north, Jackson ...
Hummel Park is located at 11808 John J. Pershing Drive in North Omaha, Nebraska. Developed on 202 acres (0.82 km 2) of land donated to the City of Omaha in 1930, [1] the park was named after Joseph B. Hummel, [2] a long time superintendent of Omaha's Parks and Recreation Department.
He has starred in several TV comedy series, including The State, Viva Variety, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Michael & Michael Have Issues, and Another Period. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, he was the puppeteer and voice actor for the Pets.com sock puppet dog, and played a supporting character on the NBC drama series ...
Omaha Quartermaster Depot: Omaha 1881–present Fort Omaha [1] North Omaha: 1861-1946 Omaha Post: Post of the Otos: Pawnee Post: Pawnee Ranch Post: Pilcher's Post: Plum Creek Post: Ponca Fort: Niobrara: 1700-1865 Ponca Post: Camp Recovery: Camp Red Willow: Robideaux Pass Post: Camp Robinson: Fort Robinson: Crawford: 1874-1948 St. Deroin Fort ...
Summer Omaha Ultimate League (SOUL) is an amateur ultimate (sport) ("Frisbee") league in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 2006, SOUL was the first ultimate league in the state of Nebraska, with 60 players in the inaugural season [ 1 ] (since that time, Lincoln Ultimate Disc Association (LUDA) has also been founded, in nearby Lincoln, Nebraska ).
Fun-Plex is an amusement park located at 7003 Q Street in the Ralston neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. It is the largest amusement park in Nebraska, [1] [2] [3] Fun-Plex began as “The Kart Ranch” in 1979 with just a go-kart track. In 2015 Fun-Plex is putting a brand new water feature called Makana Splash a water play structure with a 317 ...
An Omaha native, she also is the daughter of reporter Mick Rood, who shared a Pulitzer Prize for local investigative reporting at the Omaha Sun newspapers in 1973 for a special report on Boys Town ...
North of Omaha, the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge provides a refuge for migrating waterfowl and is the winter home of more than 100 bald eagles. Across the Missouri River from Omaha in Council Bluffs, Iowa are the historic General Dodge House, the 1885 Pottawattamie County Jail, Kanesville Tabernacle, and the RailsWest Railroad Museum. [29]