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The Richardsonian Romanesque Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall was designed and built in 1894–95 by architects Fisher & Lawrie, [2] and was the meeting place of the William Baumer Post No. 24, one of 354 GAR posts in Nebraska. The hall has been restored and is now the Civil War Veterans Museum at the GAR Memorial Hall.
Sheridan County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 5,127. [1] Its county seat is Rushville. [2] The county was formed in 1885, and was named for General Philip H. Sheridan.
Incorporated communities in Nebraska are legally classified as cities or villages, depending on their population: [3] a village is a municipality of 100 through 800 inhabitants, whereas a city must have at least 800 inhabitants. There are 528 municipalities. Of Nebraska's 528 municipalities, 147 are cities and 381 are villages.
Offutt Air Force Base, south of Omaha and adjacent to Bellevue, Nebraska, became the headquarters of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command in 1948, and continues as the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command. The museum, then located at Offutt, began with its first airplane in 1959 as the Strategic Aerospace Museum.
The Rainwater Basin wetland region is a 4,200 sq mi (11,000 km 2) loess plain located south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska. [1] It lies principally in Adams, Butler, Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Kearney, Phelps, Polk, Saline, Seward, and York counties and extends into adjacent areas of southeastern Hall, northern Franklin, northern Nuckolls, western Saline, northern Thayer and ...
American Federation of Government Employees affiliates: Council 238 [101] American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees affiliates: Council 5 [102] AFSCME Council 31 [103] District Council 37 [104] District Council 47 [105] Local 152 [106] Local 925 [107] American Federation of Musicians affiliates: AFM Local 802 [108]
The major daily newspaper in Nebraska is the Omaha World-Herald, formerly the largest employee-owned newspaper in the United States. [254] Weeklies in the city include the Midlands Business Journal (weekly business publication); American Classifieds (formerly Thrifty Nickel), a weekly classified newspaper; The Reader, as well as The Omaha Star.
Cozad is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States.The population was 3,977 at the 2010 census.The town is on the Great Plains of central Nebraska, along the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Route 30, just north of the Platte River.