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Farwell was originally called Posen, and under the latter name was established in 1887 by a colony of Polish settlers. [4] Some incoming Danish settlers soon found the name to their distaste, so in 1889 it was changed to Farwell, the Danish word for "good-bye". [5] [6] Farwell was incorporated as a village in 1895. [4]
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26] Now a local history museum. [27]
University of Nebraska State Museum, also known as Elephant Hall, a natural history museum in the Morrill Hall building on the University of Nebraska campus, founded. 1872. New State Lunatic Asylum completed. [10] Atchison and Nebraska Railroad begins service. Lincoln Gas Light Company organized. 1874-1879 US Post Office and Courthouse built.
Children's Museum of Central Nebraska: Hastings: Adams: Central: Children's: website: Chimney Rock National Historic Site: Bayard: Morrill: Nebraska Panhandle: History: Operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society, includes exhibits about pioneers and the migrations in the West Civil War Veterans Museum at the G.A.R. Memorial Hall ...
National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se.
History of Nebraska (4th ed. U of Nebraska Press, 2015). 568 pp. online review. older editions: Olson, James C, and Ronald C. Naugle. History of Nebraska (3rd ed. University of Nebraska Press, 1997) 506pp [ISBN missing] Sheldon, Addison Erwin. Nebraska: The Land and the People. (3 vols. 1931). old detailed narrative, with biographies
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