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1854— East Omaha first annexed by the City of Omaha; 1877— Flood created the oxbow lake to become known as Carter Lake; 1887— The East Omaha Land Company was established and the area comprising East Omaha was cleared for sale; 1887— The East Omaha Factory District was cleared for development. 1887— Sherman School opened as a two-room ...
East Omaha proper was once an agricultural area. Once considered for the site of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, it lost out to Kountze Park. Omaha's main airport, Eppley Airfield, is now in East Omaha, and the community has been the location of racial contention for several years. East Omaha was the first annexation to the City of Omaha in 1854.
East Omaha sits on a flood plain west of the Missouri River. The area is the location of Carter Lake, an oxbow lake. The lake was once the site of East Omaha Island and Florence Lake, which dried up in the 1920s. The Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area consists of eight counties; five in Nebraska and three in Iowa. [94]
The Vinton Street Commercial Historic District is located along Vinton Street between Elm Street on the west and South 17th Street on the east in south Omaha, Nebraska.This district is located adjacent to Sheelytown, a residential neighborhood that had historically significant populations of Irish, Poles, and Eastern European immigrants.
The area is the location of Carter Lake, an oxbow lake. The lake was once the site of East Omaha Island. In the crux of Carter Drive is an unnamed sulphur spring, and located south of there is Hardwood Creek. East Omaha was once the location of Florence Lake, which dried up at some point in the 1920s.
In the early 1890s the city of Omaha renamed the lake in honor of Levi Carter after his widow donated $1,000,000 to the City of Omaha for upgrades to the area around the lake, which the city named Levi Carter Park. [4] In 1896 the United States Supreme Court ruled that the neighboring town of Carter Lake belonged to the State of Iowa. [5]
This article covers Omaha landmarks designated by the City of Omaha Landmark Heritage Preservation Commission. In addition, it includes structures or buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places and those few designated as National Historic Landmarks , indicating their varying level of importance to the city, state and nation.
Location Opened Closed Notes; Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge: Across the Missouri River: East Omaha Bridge: Across the Missouri River: 1893 / 1903 1980 Built by the Illinois Central Railroad. [23] O Street Viaduct: O Street 1885 / 2001 Cuming Street Trestle 4448 Cuming St 1887 Built for the Belt Line Railway, owned by the Missouri Pacific ...