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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.
First woman to serve as mayor of Lincoln; [8] Later ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Nebraska in 1986: 45 Roland A. Luedtke: Rep May 16, 1983: May 18, 1987: Previously served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature and as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska before becoming Lincoln mayor 46 Bill Harris: Dem May 18, 1987: May 20, 1991: 47 Mike ...
Map of the United States with Nebraska highlighted. Nebraska is a state located in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 census, Nebraska was the 37th most populous state with 1,961,504 inhabitants [1] and the 15th largest by land area spanning 76,824.17 square miles (198,973.7 km 2) of land. [2]
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 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.
The city is presently located at the junction of U.S. Route 385 with I-80, and its location approximately halfway between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and North Platte, Nebraska, has encouraged the growth of the city as a major transportation service area on the Interstate. Because the I-80/US 385 interchange is located several miles southeast of the ...
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.