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Fairacres is a neighborhood and historic district in Omaha, Nebraska. It is south of Dundee and west of Midtown. It is roughly bounded by Underwood Avenue to the north, Dodge Street to the south, North 69th Street to the west, and North 62nd Street to the east. It is primarily residential, and was annexed into Omaha in 1941.
The Vinton Street Commercial Historic District is located along Vinton Street between Elm Street on the west and South 17th Street on the east in south Omaha, Nebraska.This district is located adjacent to Sheelytown, a residential neighborhood that had historically significant populations of Irish, Poles, and Eastern European immigrants.
This is a list of streets in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1854, today Omaha's population is over 400,000, making it the nation's 40th-largest city in the United States. There are more than 1.2 million residents within a 50-mile (80-km) radius of the city's center, forming the Greater Omaha area.
The Board of Education in Omaha has operated a variety of schools since the city's founding in 1854. The first school in Omaha, a one-room schoolhouse, was opened on the southwest corner of Jefferson Square. After a brief closure in 1861, Omaha Public Schools formed again in 1863, and has operated continuously since. [5]
Cemeteries in Omaha; Name Established Location Affiliation Size Beth El Synagogue Cemetery: 1939 4700 South 84th Street (84th & "L"), Ralston: Jewish 3 acres Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery: 1901 8600 South 42 Street, Bellevue: Jewish Bird-Ritchie Cemetery Just west of North 60th Street and half a mile south of Northern Hills Drive Family
The northern section, called J.J. Pershing Drive, was finished by 1920; Gifford Drive in South Omaha was designed to do the same. However, influential Omaha architect John Latenser was adamant about preventing this project from coming to fruition in Downtown Omaha, where he saw the boulevard potentially impeding on his plans for the Port of ...
No longer functioning in Omaha. [7] New York Life Insurance Company: 1845 Omaha Country Club: 1899 Omaha Public Power District: 1946 Omaha World-Herald: 1885 Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It was absorbed by George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. Peter Kiewit Sons: 1884 Packaging Corporation of America: 1959
Its closure, in 1987, marked the end of drive-in theaters in Omaha. [4] In 1988 the land was redeveloped for upscale homes. [4] Sky-View Drive-In [119] August 1954 [119] 1100 cars [119] 7200 Hartman Avenue [119] The drive-in was typically open March through December. The drive-in closed in 1985 and the land redeveloped for a storage facility. [116]