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The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha.
Omaha (/ ˈ oʊ m ə h ɑː / OH-mə-hah) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. [6] It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River.
Joseph Robidoux IV was the grandson of Joseph Robidoux II (b. 13 September 1722 • Montreal, St-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, L'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada) and Marie-Anne Leblanc (b. 13 January 1728 • Île-Dorléans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada). He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where his father introduced him and his brothers ...
East Omaha: The Missouri River on the east, the Carter Lake and Carter Lake, Iowa on the south, and Florence Boulevard from Jaynes Street north to Read Street on the west. Omaha's first annexation, in 1854. [6] Midtown Omaha: Cuming Street on the north, Center Street on the south, 24th Street on the east, and 72nd Street on the west. North Omaha
Unknown. (1987) Boom and Bust on the Frontier: North Omaha's Story. Omaha Public Library. Bish, James D. (1989) The Black Experience in Selected Nebraska Counties, 1854-1920. M.A. Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha. (n.d) History of North High School [permanent dead link] Finlayson, A.J. (1978) The Mysterious Disappearance of Saratoga.
The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 1862 during the 1860s, and in 1867 was admitted to the Union as the 37th U.S. state.
A federal judge has approved an agreement between two tribes and an eastern Nebraska county that gives Native American voters a majority in five of the county's seven board districts. Chief U.S ...
Winter Quarters (North Omaha, Nebraska) Winter Quarters was an encampment formed by approximately 2,500 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they waited during the winter of 1846–47 for better conditions for their trek westward. It followed a preliminary tent settlement some 3½ miles west at Cutler's Park. [1]