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The Plainsman Museum is a museum located in Aurora, Nebraska, focusing on the history of the settlers and their descendants in the central Nebraska plains region.It was officially dedicated on July 4, 1976, as a part of the American national bicentennial, and consists of a complex of buildings housing various items demonstrating the everyday life of the plains settlers, along with agricultural ...
In 1861, David Millspaw became the first permanent settler in the area of what was to become Aurora. Hamilton County was formed in 1870. [4] Aurora was laid out as a town in 1871 by David Stone who named it after his former hometown of Aurora, Illinois. [5] [6] The county seat was transferred from Orville City (an extinct town) to Aurora in ...
Hamilton County is a county in the U.S. state Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 9,429. [1] Its county seat is Aurora. [2] The county was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury in the new United States government. Hamilton County is included in the Grand Island, NE Metropolitan ...
The Hamilton County Courthouse is a historic building in Aurora, Nebraska, and the courthouse for Hamilton County, Nebraska. [2] It replaced the 1877 courthouse, which in turn replaced the 1870 courthouse. [2] This third courthouse was built in 1894, and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect William Gray. [2]
According to an article by Time, the chamber partnered with several Nebraska-based businesses that agreed to collectively donate $800 every time Manning said "Omaha" during the AFC Championship football game on January 19, 2014, against the New England Patriots. Manning is known for yelling the city's name at the line of scrimmage prior to plays.
This list of museums in Nebraska encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Arthur County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 434, [1] making it Nebraska's third least populous county and the seventh-least populous county in the United States (behind only Loving County, Texas; Kalawao County, Hawaii; King County, Texas; Kenedy County, Texas; McPherson County, Nebraska; and Blaine County, Nebraska).
Tom Brewer, member of the Nebraska Legislature; Val Fitch, 1980 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics [14] Dwight Griswold, governor of Nebraska from 1940 to 1946 and editor and publisher of the Gordon Journal from 1922 to 1940 [15] Trevor Johnson, defensive end in the NFL; played for the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams [16]