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The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha.
Oct 23, 2020 · The town of Elkhorn was founded in 1865 and platted in 1867 by George Crawford and H.O. Jones. It was officially incorporated on December 30, 1886. The area had first been settled by homesteaders in the 1850s. Like many young towns, its pragmatic placement on the Elkhorn River provided abundant water, and the building of the Union Pacific ...
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The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, [1] until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska Territory was created by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854. The territorial capital was Omaha.
The area of far North Omaha from Ames Avenue north was not commonly acknowledged as an incorporated part of the city until before the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, when a housing boom filled in many communities throughout the area North Omaha was the site of several federal housing projects, first built in the 1930s as no-cost ...
1919 Rioters lynch Will Brown and pillage North Omaha during the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. 1919 The first African American pilot from North Omaha, future Tuskegee Airman Alfonza W. Davis, is born in North Omaha. 1920s First wave of white flight from near North Omaha following the riots, with whites leaving the area en masse from Cuming north to ...
Apr 5, 2016 · The North Omaha School at North 19th and Izard from 1874 through the 1890s, and served the early eastern neighborhoods along Cuming Street. When Cuming Street started growing, it was a mix of business and houses. The neighborhood between North 17th and 20th, from Cuming south to Cass was founded as an Irish neighborhood in the 1860s.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Omaha . Omaha, City (pop., 2020: 486,051), eastern Nebraska, U.S., on the Missouri River, north of its junction with the Platte River. The city’s name, meaning “upstream people,” referred to the Omaha Indians. Omaha was founded in 1854 and incorporated as a city in 1857.
