Waverly Five and Dime / George Elmore and Elmore v. Rice

Waverly Five and Dime)

The Waverly Five & Dime, located here until about 1957, was managed 1945-48 by George A. Elmore (1905-1959), the African American plaintiff in a landmark voting rights case soon after World War II. Elmore ran this ...

Mansfield Orthodox Congregational Church

Here in the old red brick school house was held the first service of worship by the Mansfield Congregational Church May 20, 1828

This tablet was placed in memory of that service

May 20, 1963

Marker is on West Street just east ...

Ilmbacher Hof

[Marker text in German:

Aus einer alten Chronik:

„Der nachmalige Kloster Ilmbachische Hof war sonst ein Bürgerhaus mit einer öden Hofstadt dabei. Das Kloster kaufte beides und ließ 1742 ein grösseres Gebaüde da aufführen und kaufte mehrere Weinberge und Felder dazu". Seit ...

History of Fort Omaha

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

As a result of a major confrontation from 1866-1868 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota (Sioux), the U.S. government signed a treaty agreeing that the Army would abandon several posts along the Bozeman Trail. By this ...

Fort Omaha Officers Row

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Built in 1906, Fort Omaha’s “Officers Row” typifies the architecture appropriate for officers’ residences on an army post in the early 20th century. Large and impressively formal, the houses lack elaborate exterior decoration characteristic of residences of ...

General Crook's Headquarters at Fort Omaha

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Upon the recommendation of Lt. General William T. Sherman, in 1866 the Adjutant General’s office created the Department of the Platte which included present-day Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and a portion of southeastern Idaho. As departmental ...

Fort Omaha Balloon School

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Until after World War I, no other method equaled a soldier’s ability to send intelligence information directly to the ground by telephone from an observation balloon.

Fort Omaha entered America’s balloon and aviation history in April 1909 when ...

Observation Balloon Training at Fort Omaha

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

After nine years of inactivity, Fort Omaha reopened in 1905 as a school for noncommissioned Signal Corps officers. A structure to house the army’s only dirigible (balloon airship) was completed in 1908, and the first dirigible flew ...

Fort Omaha Knights of Columbus Assembly Hall

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

During World War I, citizen participation in relief and aid societies was exceptional across America. Omaha’s Red Cross chapter led all cities in the country in per capita membership.

In addition to the Red Cross providing a canteen ...

Quartermaster's Office and Commissary

Fort Omaha Walking Tour

Throughout the frontier era, the Quartermaster’s Department oversaw post construction, supply procurement and transportation. It worked closely with the Subsistence Department which purchased and assigned rations. To both agencies, Fort Omaha represented the best distribution site for ...