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Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha.
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.
420 Steinhart Park Rd. [12: Nebraska City: Operated as museum under name "Wildwood Historic Center". [12] 26: Wolf Creek Bridge: Wolf Creek Bridge: June 29, 1992 : Vacated county road over Wolf Creek, 10.3 miles (16.6 km) northeast of Dunbar
More than 1,100 properties and districts in Nebraska are on the National Register of Historic Places. Of these, 20 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in 90 of the state's 93 counties. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025. [1]
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. There are two of these in Nebraska.
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They married and, after receiving training as missionaries for the Baptist Church, they arrived in Bellevue, Nebraska in 1833. The Indian agent offered them space in the former trading post called Fontenelle's , then part of buildings used by the Bellevue Indian Agency.
U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough joined local elected officials and leaders from veterans organizations in ribbon-cutting ceremony.