In memory of Fannie Kavalec, Mary Macen, Annie Osmera, and six children pioneer Bohemians drowned in this canyon enrout to their homesteads in Dundy County Neb. May 26, 1885 — — Map (db m251774) HM
In June, 1886, the townsite of Bartley was platted on land owned by the Reverend Allen Bartley, a minister of the Methodist Church. The previous year, Methodist Bishop Mallalieu had proposed this site as the location for a church-affiliated . . . — — Map (db m176889) HM
The fate of the Nelson Buck survey party lies
sealed forever in the dust of this meandering
valley. Theirs was a hard life with a tragic ending.
Nelson Buck was commissioned in 1869 to
survey in southwest Nebraska while encamped
about 1 . . . — — Map (db m251285) HM
Presented to McCook Red Willow High School In Honor and Recognition of your 1958-1959 Football Team being selected to this unique and honored group as the Golden Anniversary Team Dick Reiners, Don Deebe, Marvin Teel, Virgil Couse, Bill . . . — — Map (db m303505) HM
The US built prisoner of war camps across the country during World War II. One such camp opened north of Indianola. It held mostly German soldiers captured in North Africa and Italy. Prisoners began arriving by train in November 1943. The camp was . . . — — Map (db m223474) HM
The Republican Valley was the center of one of the major buffalo ranges of the Great Plains. It was a favorite hunting ground of several Indian tribes. Pawnee, Sioux, Oto and Cheyenne spent much time here as late as 1874. These tribal hunts, . . . — — Map (db m152923) HM
Boyhood home of E. Benjamin Nelson, Governor of Nebraska from 1991 to 1999. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000. Moved from original location on West B St. — — Map (db m177021) HM
This copper kettle was brought from Claton, Ill., in a prairie schooner by Berts grandparents in 1870. Berts father, Clifford, followed with family in 1880, and took a homestead north of Marion Nebr., Red Willow Co. Built the first frame house . . . — — Map (db m242197) HM
Home of Frank B. Morrison, Governor of Nebraska from 1961 to 1967. Before becoming Governor, Morrison practiced law in McCook and raised a family with wife Maxine. — — Map (db m177033) HM
Norris, the “Gentle Knight of Progressive Ideals,”
Served five terms in the House of Representatives and five terms in the U.S. Senate before retiring here in 1943 — — Map (db m79365) HM
George W. Norris, whose home is on Norris Avenue, McCook, Nebraska, served forty years in the Congress of the United States. Born in Ohio, he worked his way through college, followed the footsteps of the pioneers westward, settling in Nebraska. He . . . — — Map (db m79364) HM
Harry D. Strunk dedicated his life to the development of southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas as founder and president of the Republican Valley Conservation Association. Motivated by the Republican River Flood of 1935 that claimed more than 100 . . . — — Map (db m177000) HM
