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Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
George Armsby and E. Fowler are considered the first settlers in the area. [5] St. Francis Township was settled in 1855 and organized in 1857. The name St. Francis comes from Louis Hennepin, who named the Rum River after Francis of Assisi in 1680. [6] The first doctor to practice in St. Francis arrived in 1857 and was known as Dr. Marshall.
199 W. 3rd St. [25: Long Pine: 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.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Historic areas of the National Park System in Nebraska [ edit ] 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 ...
Nebraska State Historical Society, formerly History Nebraska, is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information ... and to embrace alike aboriginal and modern history." It was designated a state institution in 1883, and upgraded to a state agency in 1994.
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