Ellis Hospital

Built 1893 on this site,replacing 1885 Dispensary.

It became City Hall Annex

in 1906 as hospital moved

to Nott Street location.

Marker is at the intersection of Jay Street and Liberty Street, on the right when traveling north on Jay ...

Joseph Francis Bauman

1822 - 1876

Born in Germany, Joseph Francis Bauman came to Omaha in the early 1860s. Like many others, he may have been escaping the wars that plagued Central Europe at that time. In 1863, with his partner John Green, he ...

Harry Payne Whitney

1872 - 1930

The stamp affixed on Thoroughbred racing by William Collins Whitney and his son Harry Payne Whitney remains indelible. It was W. C. Whitney who poured funding into revitalization of Saratoga, the charming old Victorian race track still operating ...

Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps

1883 - 1970

An early investor with Andrew Carnegie was Henry Phipps, whose son, Henry Carnegie Phipps, married Gladys Livingston Mills. Mills' ancestors had signed the Declaration of Independence and handled the Louisiana Purchase. As Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, the former ...

Capt. Harry Guggenheim

1890 - 1971

Charles Lindbergh regarded Capt. Harry F. Guggenheim and Dr. Robert Goddard as the two most forward looking men in the early history of aerospace. Guggenheim financed much of Goddard's research and was himself a combat flyer in both ...

Col. Phil T. Chinn

1874 - 1962

Col. Phil T. Chinn's place in the history of Thoroughbred racing and breeding would be secure on the facts alone, for he bred, trained, raced, bought, and sold a number of important horses. It was as a character ...

Allen Paulson

1922 - 2000

Long before he owned the international champion Cigar, Allen Paulson had established an American success story honored by the Horatio Alger Association and the Wright Brothers Trophy. Born in Clinton, Iowa, into a family that was to be ...

Ogden Phipps

1908 - 2002

When Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps launched Wheatley Stable in the 1920's her teenage son, Ogden Phipps, became interested in the sport. In 1932, a year after graduation from Harvard, he registered his own colors of a black jacket ...

Lucille Parker Markey

1897 - 1982

From 1924 until her death, Maysville, Kentucky, native Mrs. Lucille Parker Markey was the lady of Calumet Farm. First as the young bride of Calumet heir Warren Wright Sr. and then as the wife of Hollywood writer Admiral ...

Audie Murphy Monument

Audie Murphy Crash Site

Audie Leon Murphy

June 20, 1924

May 28, 1971

Born in Kingston, Texas, died near this site in an airplane crash. America's most decorated veteran of World War II. He served in the European Theatre-15th Infantry Regiment-3rd Infantry Division and ...