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 Bert’s grandparents in 1870. Bert’s 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
