Fannie Sellins

(1870-1919)

An organizer for the United Mine Workers, Fannie Sellins was brutally gunned down in Brackenridge on the eve of a nationwide steel strike, on August 26, 1919. Her devotion to the workers' cause made her an important symbolic figure. Both ...

Repulse Fire Co.

The first fire company in Livingston County, formed in 1830. Reorganized; 1876 as Centennial Fire Dept., in 1927 as Lima Fire Dept.

Marker is on East Main Street (New York Route 5) just east of Rochester Street (New York Route ...

Territory and State of Nebraska

Nebraska, originally part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, became a territory of the United States Government in 1854 when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Nebraska Territory included parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming. Nebraska ...

First Lady Betty Ford

Betty Ford

personally dedicated

this Rose Garden

to the People of Omaha

July 12, 1980

Marker is on Woolworth Avenue near 32nd Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

President Gerald R. Ford

The 38th President

of the United States

revisited this site

July 12, 1980

Marker is on Woolworth Avenue near 32nd Street, on the left when traveling east.

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The City of Omaha, Nebraska

The settlement of Omaha began in 1854 with the opening of the Nebraska Territory. The following year Omaha was selected as the Nebraska Territorial capital. Omaha was incorporated as a city in 1857. The capital was moved from Omaha to ...

Routes of the Armies

Routes of the Armies

of General John Sullivan and General James Clinton 1779

An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of the English and Indians of the frontier of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward the ...

Site of First Church

Geneseo's first church building occupied this site, facing the Village Square, from 1818 until 1884. This Presbyterian Church, known as "The White Church", contained in its tower a four-sided town clock, also a good bell, paid for in wool by ...

Francis E. Willard

Great Temperance Leader was born in house standing on this site Sept. 28, 1839. The Willards left this home for Ohio two years later.

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 36) 0.2 miles south of North Buffalo ...

Site of Union Pacific's Omaha Shops

You are standing at the site of the original Union Pacific Omaha Shops.

From this point a railroad was begun that would fulfill a national destiny.

Even before Union Pacific was an American icon, it was an American dream. It was a ...