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Bowring Ranch State Historical Park is a state park of Nebraska, United States, interpreting the ranching heritage of the Sand Hills region and the lives of former owners Arthur and Eva Bowring (the first female U.S. Senator from Nebraska). The park is three miles (4.8 km) north of Merriman in Cherry County, near the South Dakota border.
The Sandhills, often written Sand Hills, is a region of mixed-grass prairie on grass-stabilized sand dunes in north-central Nebraska, covering just over one quarter of the state. The dunes were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1984.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 02:53, 23 February 2007: 7,414 × 3,411 (38 KB): The Monster: I created this file (by modifying the public-domain file Image:Map_of_Nebraska_highlighting_Cherry_County.svg) to illustrate the counties officially designated the Sand Hills Region by the Nebraska Division of Travel and Tourism. ~~~~
Site of Ton-won-tonga, the principal village of the Omaha people, occupied on and off from 1775 to 1845, bastion of indigenous control over trade on the Upper Missouri River. [34] 4: Meisch House: Meisch House
Aerial view of the refuge. Collectively known as the sand hills region of Nebraska, the dunes were the result of the last ice age known as the Pinedale glaciation.During the Holocene glacial retreat the sand dunes that been deposited in their current location by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed and grasses eventually took over.
Beyond Berkshire Hathaway and Fortune 500 companies, Omaha’s Blackstone District, NoDo District and Old Market offer history and arts, as well as fun places to sleep, eat and drink.
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Ashfall Fossil Beds: 2006: Orchard: Antelope: state historical park A rare example of a lagerstätten, a thick bed of volcanic ash, contains hundreds of extraordinarily complete skeletons of extinct mammals.