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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZP_grand-island-public-school-bell_Grand-Island-NE.html
Grand Island Public School. Erected 1878.I proclaim unceasing warfare againstignorance, fanatacism and intolerance.
School Board, 1879O A Abbott, ModeratorW H Platt, DirectorH A Koenig, TreasurerT J Hurford · C E Lykke · R C Jorda…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZO_the-yancey_Grand-Island-NE.html
This building has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places of the United States Department of the Interior. Orginally constructed to be part of the American Hotel chain for the Bankers Realty Investment Company of Omaha, the structu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZN_federal-building_Grand-Island-NE.html
Originally designed as a U.S. Post Office and Court House, the Grand Island Federal Building opened on November 26, 1910. It was designed by James Knox Taylor and cost $108,000. The 1935 west-wing addition was designed by local architect, Charles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZM_civil-war-and-spanish-american-war-memorial_Grand-Island-NE.html
In memory of thedefenders of our country1861-1865 — 1898-1900
Committee of Lyon Post No. 11Nebr. G.A.R.G. C. HumphreyC. B. NorrisG. F. Ryan
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZL_fort-o-k-cannon_Grand-Island-NE.html
This Cannonleft at Fort O. K.August 22, 1865byMajor J. R. Curtisfor protection of thesettlement against attackby hostile Indians.
Presented toHall County,March 1, 1897under Act of Congress,May 22, 1896.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZE_hall-county-courthouse_Grand-Island-NE.html
Designed by Omaha architect Thomas Rogers Kimball (1862-1934), the Hall County Courthouse is an exceptional example of Beaux-Arts classicism and borrows on Germanic design sources. Constructed of brick accented with limestone, the building feature…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZ9_the-seedling-mile_Grand-Island-NE.html
Here is a section of an original Seedling Mile on the Lincoln Highway. It was completed November 3, 1915. Grand Island was the second city in the United States to build such an example of concrete roadway. The original Seedling Mile extended from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUEE_the-lincoln-memorial-highway_Grand-Island-NE.html
The Lincoln Highway association, formed in 1913 to build a New York to San Francisco highway, sold "highway memberships" to raise funds for the project. In Nebraska the road, which traversed twelve states, extended westward from Iowa along the Pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUE0_pioneer-park_Grand-Island-NE.html
Pioneer Park, site of the first Hall County courthouse, honors the courageous settlers who peacefully inhabited this area in 1857 when only Pawnee lived here. In 1866 the Union Pacific reached Grad Island and in 1868 the railroad donated Block 19 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUDZ_earth-lodge-design-and-construction_Grand-Island-NE.html
Beneath the earthen exterior is an intricate structure of Cottonwood tree trunks and Willow branches. This is a moderate-sized earth lodge—thirty eight feet in diameter and eighteen feet high at the central fire hole. Responsible for the con…