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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GG9_lewis-and-clark-campsite-area_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
Three plaques are on this marker.Top, left plaque
First Naturalists of the American West
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was more than a geographic expedition. Lewis; and Clark became the first scientists to document the natural history of the Amer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPR_steamboat-bertrand_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
During the mid-nineteenth century, steamboats played a major role in the settlement and development of the nation. In March 1865 the fully laden sternwheeler Bertrand left St. Louis under command of Captain James Yore. The cargo of general merchan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XC_fort-atkinson_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
Civilization came to the west bank of the Missouri with establishment of Fort Atkinson in 1820 about a half mile southeast of here. Named after its founder, General Henry Atkinson, this western-most Fort protected the frontier's developing commerc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X8_lewis-and-clark-campsite_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
On July 30 the explorers arrived at the bluff where Fort Atkinson would be built less than two decades later. Clark wrote, "The Situation of this place which we Call Council Bluff which is handsom ellevated a Spot well Calculated... for a fort to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TY_fort-atkinson_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
From 1820 to 1827, the nation's largest and most westerly military post occupied this site, the earlier scene of Lewis and Clark's Council Bluff. In late 1819, troops under Colonel Henry Atkinson established Cantonment Missouri along the river nea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TW_the-death-of-marshal-suverkrubbe_Fort-Calhoun-NE.html
About 3 a.m. on December 5, 1932, Fort Calhoun marshal Albert Suverkrubbe was shot while trying to apprehend two men fleeing Kruse's Red and White Grocery at 106 S. Fourteenth Street. Suverkrubbe died from his wounds nine days later, leaving his w…