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1889 reunion veterans of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. General Joshua L. Chamberlain, the officer who commanded them in battle, is seated at center right, bracketed by the Maltese Cross banner of the V Corps (5th) and the unit's regimental flag. Left is a monument to the unit recently erected by its veterans.
Hastings is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 25,152 at the 2020 census , making it the 8th most populous city in Nebraska . Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in Hastings in 1927; the town celebrates the invention with the Kool-Aid Days festival every August.
near modern Columbus, Nebraska: War of the Quadruple Alliance: 46 [2] Spanish Empire, Pueblo, & Apache vs Pawnee & Otoe: Battle of Ash Hollow [3] September 3, 1855 near modern Lewellen, Nebraska: First Sioux War: 113 Brulé vs United States of America Battle Creek [4] July 12, 1859 near modern Battle Creek, Nebraska: Pawnee War of 1859 0
The former Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD) is one of Nebraska's four major former ammunition plants: the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant, the Nebraska Ordnance Plant and the Martin Bomber Plant. [1] Its construction began in July 1942 on 49,000 acres (200 km 2 ) and was completed in early 1943 with over 2,000 buildings, bunkers , and various other types ...
Location of Adams County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Nebraska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Tri-Cities is an area of Nebraska consisting of the cities of Grand Island, Hastings, and Kearney.It has a population of 174,530 as of 2020. [1] [2] [3] The Tri-Cities region is not an official Metropolitan Statistical Area or Combined Statistical Area, however the region would be Nebraska's third largest if it was, behind Lincoln but ahead of Sioux City.
Adams County, Nebraska, was established on February 16, 1867, and named in honor of John Adams, the second President of the United States. The first settlers began to arrive in the late 1860s, following the Homestead Act of 1862 , which encouraged settlement by providing land to those who would develop and farm it.
Walter Goodale Morrill (November 13, 1840 – March 3, 1935) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station in November 1863.