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The States Ballroom is a historic community building in Bee, Nebraska. Originally built as a dance hall, the building opened in 1939 as a Works Progress Administration project. Bee architect Vladimir Sobotka designed the twelve-sided building, which incorporates Moderne features.
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.
Perhaps thirty thousand veterans and another fifty thousand visitors attended each of the mid- and late-1890 reunions, and the numbers increased. In 1911, an estimated crowd of 106,000 members and guests crammed into Little Rock, Arkansas —a city of less than one-half that size.
While many state chapters of both the United Confederate Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic held reunions in the 1930s, the last major Civil War reunion again occurred at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1938, that battle's 75th anniversary and two years after successful organization of Manassas National Battlefield Park and the re ...
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Fort McPherson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery, located 4 miles (6 km) south of the village of Maxwell in Lincoln County, Nebraska. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 20 acres (8.1 ha), and as of 2014, it had over 10,000 interments.
Pioneer Village is a museum and tourist attraction along U.S. Highway 6 in Minden, Nebraska, United States, featured in many roadside and historical attraction guides. [1] It is made up of a collection of 50,000 historical objects and 28 historical buildings. [2]
Official website; Cliff, M. (1994) History as Fiction, Fiction as History Ploughshares.. - Article including an extensive write-up about the Great Plains Black Museum; Interview with Bertha Calloway, Nebraska Black Oral History Project, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.