On 9th Street just west of C Street, on the right when traveling west.
During the nineteenth century the United States underwent a dramatic westward expansion, but perhaps no single event stimulated this mass migration more than the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California. Hundreds of thousands of . . . — — Map (db m206659) HM
On State Highway 4, 6.8 miles east of U.S. 81, on the left when traveling east.
Acree, William • Albert, John • Armstrong, William • Arnett, Willard • Blakeslide, Herbert • Boekman, George • Bohle, Robert • Brown, Jack • Brown, Richard • Burke, James • Clarkson, Donald • Hemphill, Lloyd • Hutslar, Orson • Johnson, Arthur • . . . — — Map (db m206988) HM
On State Highway 4, 6.8 miles east of U.S. 81, on the left when traveling east.
Bruning Army Air Field, located northeast of here, was one of eleven army airfields in Nebraska during World War II. Construction began in September 1942 on 1,480 acres of farmland, for which the government paid twelve landowners $73,400. The field . . . — — Map (db m206989) HM
On State Highway 4, 6.8 miles east of U.S. 81, on the left when traveling east.
On October 22, 1960, Paul E. ‘Ed’ Yost made the first free flight of a modern hot-air balloon from the former Bruning Army Air Field. The flight lasted 25 minutes and covered 3 miles. Humans first flew in 1783 in a hot-air balloon conceived and . . . — — Map (db m207000) HM
On Thayer Avenue at Howard Street, on the left when traveling south on Thayer Avenue.
The Chester Municipal Auditorium was a 1938 WPA project intended for social and recreational uses. It was built at a cost of $29,340 with much of the labor done by hand. — — Map (db m79893) HM
On US Highway 136 (U.S. 136) at Road 5600, on the left when traveling west on US Highway 136.
Located three miles north of this corner, near the Little Blue River, the village of Friedensau ("Peaceful Meadows") was established in 1874 by Lutheran missionary pastor John J. Kern. The town was first settled by his former parishioners from . . . — — Map (db m85667) HM
On 4th Street at Jefferson Avenue, on the left when traveling south on 4th Street.
This statue of our school's mascot, the Hebron Bear, is dedicated to our classmates and friends who made our time in school so memorable, to the teachers, coaches, school board volunteers and administrators who provided the invaluable guidance . . . — — Map (db m79889) HM
On Road Q just east of U.S. 81, on the left when traveling east.
From Independence and Westport (Kansas City) Missouri to the Columbia River. Route of the first Oregon Colonists, the trail of trappers and traders as early as 1830. A main road to the gold fields and western military posts. The path of the Pony . . . — — Map (db m206998) HM
On 4th Street north of Olive Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
The boundaries of the future Thayer County were first defined in 1856, and the county was named Jefferson. In 1867 Jones County to the east was attached. The legislature in 1871 divided the single large county into two, naming the western county . . . — — Map (db m79885) HM
On Holdredge Avenue west of South Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was authorized by Congress in 1933 to provide employment and vocational training to young men during the Great Depression. The CCC worked on forestry and soil conservation projects across the nation. Company . . . — — Map (db m79890) HM
On Jefferson Avenue at 5th Street, on the right when traveling west on Jefferson Avenue.
Tell me it ain't so, Joe. This reporter's smile crumpled to the floor as I scanned the Guinness website to find the world's largest porch swing listing. It doesn't exist. The only category I could fin[d] that even came close was the world's . . . — — Map (db m79888) HM
