Civil and Spanish-American Wars Memorial

Memorial

to

the Veterans

of the Civil and

Spanish-American

Wars.

[Honor Roll of Veterans]

Gettysburg · Vicksburg

Antietam · Monitor&Merrimac

Marker is on Minden Avenue near 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Kearney County Pioneers

To the Pioneers

of

Kearney County, Nebr.

Dedicated Sept. 23, 1933

Marker is on 4th Street near Colorado Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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Kearney County Courthouse

Erected 1906

This property is listed in

the National Register of Historic Places

Nebraska State Historical Society

Marker is on Colorado Avenue near 4th Street, on the left when traveling south.

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Booker T. Washington High School

Booker T. Washington High School

1916 - 1974

From the day it opened its doors in 1916 Booker T. Washington High School played a major roll in the life of

Columbia's black community. Originally a school with all grades, eventually it ...

St. Joseph’s College

September 10, 1924 – October 17, 1989

This monument marks the former campus of St. Joseph’s College. Established with the primary purpose of training candidates for Catholic Priesthood, the college also educated thousands of young men who entered public service throughout ...

Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge

You are now looking

to the northeast

In 1863, Chattanooga was a major railroad hub with a population of 2,500. In late November the city was in Union hands, while Confederate forces occupied Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Both sides struggled for ...

Battle Above the Clouds

Hooker's troops

drove the Confederates

from Lookout Mountain

On November 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander, ordered Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces to storm Lookout Mountain. Hooker's men swept up the western slope of the mountain from your left, ...

Lucy Laney Elementary School

Side 1:

On this site, in 1954, Lucy Laney Elementary School was opened with the mission of educating black children in the Waverly Hall, Shiloh, Ellerslie, and surrounding areas. The school was named in honor of Lucy Craft Laney, a famous ...

Chimney Swifts of Northville, New York

Migratory Birds who span approximately 7000 miles from the Amazon jungle of South America to the north country of New York State.

First Study of the Chimney Swifts was made by Walker A. La Rowe of the Northville Rotary ...

Historic Lime Kilns

A hundred years ago, the intense heat from the kiln fires would have kept you at a distance. Shouts and curses in Portuguese and Italian would fill the air as men labored to quarry stone, work the kilns, and haul ...