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Government of Omaha. Omaha's City Offices Building in Downtown Omaha. The government of the City of Omaha, Nebraska consists of the Mayor of Omaha, the Omaha City Council and various departments of the City of Omaha, which is located in Douglas County, Nebraska. The city of Omaha was founded in 1854 and incorporated in 1857.
Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha Tribe when it ceded the land that became the city of Omaha to the U.S. government. Various Native American tribes had lived in the land that became Omaha since the 17th century, including the Omaha and Ponca, Dhegihan-Siouan language people who had originated in the lower Ohio River valley and migrated west by the early 17th century; Pawnee, Otoe ...
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's main airport, Eppley Airfield, is now in East Omaha, and the community has been the location of racial contention for several years. East Omaha was the first annexation to the City of Omaha in 1854. Far north Omaha includes everything north of Ames Avenue, west of Florence Boulevard, and east of 72nd Street.
Order Image Name Term began Term ended Party affiliation Notes 1 Jesse Lowe: 1857 1858 2 Andrew Jackson Poppleton: 1858 1858 (resigned) Democratic: 3
Website. joslyn.org. The Joslyn Art Museum is a fine arts museum in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. It opened in 1931 at the initiative of Sarah H. Joslyn, in memory of her husband, businessman George A. Joslyn. [1][2][3] Since its opening there have been multiple building expansions to house the museum's growing collection. [4][5][2] It is the ...
The Government of the U.S. State of Nebraska, established by the Nebraska Constitution, is a republican democracy modeled after the Federal Government of the United States. The state government has three branches: the executive , the legislative , and the judicial .
The Webster Telephone Exchange Building is the current location of the Great Plains Black History Museum. The Grand Court of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition was located in Kountze Place on the current site of Kountze Park in North Omaha. The USS Hazard is a National Historic Landmark located in Freedom Park.