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Landmark name Image Date established [4] Location County Description; 1: Homestead National Historical Park: March 19, 1936: Beatrice: Gage: The first claim made under the Homestead Act of 1862.
The George F. Lee Octagon Houses were built by farmer and carpenter George F. Lee south of Nebraska City, Nebraska near the Missouri River.The first one constructed was a frame octagon house, whose date of construction is unknown; the second, a brick octagon house, was built in 1872 across the road from the first.
County committees are panels of three to five farmers, elected by other farmers, to oversee the local operation of commodity programs, disaster assistance, and other programs of the Farm Service Agency. County committees, established by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1935 (P.L. 74-46), are so named because they have ...
The site is best known for a large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils, many of which were found at dig sites on Carnegie and University Hills.Fossils from the Harrison Formation and Anderson Ranch Formation, which date to the Arikareean in the North American land mammal classification, about 20 to 16.3 million years ago, are among some of the best specimens of Miocene mammals.
Pavelka farmstead, viewed from the south along county road 1100. In 1906, the Pavelkas bought a farm on the Divide, [3] in the northern part of a small region settled by Bohemians. [7] Soon thereafter, possibly in 1911, they bought a one-story two-room house, probably built in the late 19th century, which they moved from a nearby farm to their own.
Toadstool Geologic Park is said to be the "badlands of Nebraska" or the "desert of the Pine Ridge." The park is open 24 hours a day. Toadstool Park is north of Crawford, Nebraska; to get to the park, take Nebraska Highway 2/Nebraska Highway 71 to Toadstool Road. There is a 1-mile loop trail within the park.
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The Nebraska Sandhills: The Human Landscape. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3184-9. Richards, Jr., Bartlett and Ruth Van Ackeren (1980). Bartlett Richards: Nebraska Sandhills Cattleman. Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society. ISBN 0-686-31143-4. Van Ackeren, Ruth and Robert Howard (1995).