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Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state’s past. Today’s subject is the Discovery Oil Well, which marks the spot of the first successful oil well in western Nebraska, ending 60 years of failure.
LocationU.S. 385, 4.5 miles south of Gurley, Cheyenne County, Nebraska. View this marker’s location at
The Rock County Historical Society Museum in Bassett houses artifacts pertaining to the county’s culture and traditions.
The museum centers around the old Chicago Northwestern Railroad Depot, which the Historical Society acquired in 1968. The depot’s apartment, waiting room, stationmaster’s office, and freight room are filled with historical items from its early days ...
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On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper during a severe storm. There were no survivors. It was the largest single military air disaster in Nebraska history. The plane was in flight from the Bruning, Nebraska, Army Air Field to Pierre, South Dako...
Neihardt doing a radio broadcast in the 1920s. History Nebraska RG1042-1-4
By David L. Bristow, Editor
On April 18, 1921, the Nebraska state legislature became the first* to name a state poet laureate, honoring forty-year-old John G. Neihardt of Bancroft.
What prompted the legislature to bestow this unprecedented hon...