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Farwell was originally called Posen, and under the latter name was established in 1887 by a colony of Polish settlers. [4] Some incoming Danish settlers soon found the name to their distaste, so in 1889 it was changed to Farwell, the Danish word for "good-bye". [5] [6] Farwell was incorporated as a village in 1895. [4]
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.
Nebraska Panhandle: Local history: Open in the summer Plainsman Museum: Aurora: Hamilton: Central: Local history: Everyday life of the plains settlers, area agricultural history, period rooms, period shop and business displays, American Civil War, wildlife mounts, automobiles, dolls, late 19th-century house, schoolhouse, working blacksmith shop
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. [27]
Homestead National Historical Park, a unit of the National Park System known as the Homestead National Monument of America prior to 2021, commemorates passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed any qualified person to claim up to 160 acres (0.65 km 2) of federally owned land in exchange for five years of residence and the cultivation and improvement of the property.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Red Willow 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.
The agency rebranded and announced their name change to History Nebraska on April 30, 2018. The agency returned to its original name of the Nebraska State Historical Society on September 3, 2024. [1] The agency's mission statement is "[to] collect, preserve, and open to all, the histories we share."
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Nebraska" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.