Historic Sites in Tekamah, NE

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The E.C. Houston House is the home of the Burt County Museum. Listed on the National and State Registry o...

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(South Side) Old block house was built by U.S. War Department on this site in 1855 to protect white colony from India...

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The story of the Steamboat Bertrand follows the fate of more than 400 other steamboats traveling the Missouri R...

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This historic ghost town site was originally settled when a cabin was built here in 1847. The town itself w...

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The town of DeSoto was platted on this site in 1854 and incorporated in 1855. Steamboating on the Missouri was then i...

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On August 3 Lewis and Clark held a council with the Oto and Missouria Indians at a site they named "Council Bluff,"...

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Religous institutions have played an important role in the history of Nebraska. During the frontier period, churches ...

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Founded in 1870 by Israel Swihart, the cemetery was named for his wife, Mary Brewster Swihart. Those buried here incl...

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Traditionally known as the Cuming City Cemetery, this eleven-acre tract of land was set aside in 1976 primarily as a ...

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- This information was provided by NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION The first U.S. military post west of the M...

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About 3 a.m. on December 5, 1932, Fort Calhoun marshal Albert Suverkrubbe was shot while trying to apprehend two men ...

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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is part of a network of refuges devoted to preserving and restoring increasingl...

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Left column God Bless America Seals of Armed Forces Center column In Honor of All Those Who Served This Great Nation ...

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Nebraska's poet laureate John G. Neihardt called Bancroft, Nebraska home from 1900 to 1920, and it was in...

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On July 30 the explorers arrived at the bluff where Fort Atkinson would be built less than two decades later. Clark w...

Burt County Museum/e.c. Houston House