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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13FH_ordnance-magazine_Omaha-NE.html
This small, tin-roofed building hardly suggests its central role in the mission of the officers and troops once stationed at Fort Omaha. Constructed in 1883-84, the ordnance magazine was the chief storage place for weapons and ammunition.
It wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13F9_fort-omaha-quartermaster-depot_Omaha-NE.html
Even after the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Army relied on mules and wagons to outfit its isolated posts. The Department of the Platte, headquartered at Fort Omaha, paid over $700,000 to acquire and transport troops and fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13F8_fort-omaha-headquarters-building_Omaha-NE.html
Constructed in 1906, this double barracks building housed noncommissioned officers of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which had reactivated Fort Omaha in 1905. During World War I, this building served as South Post Headquarters for the Army's first ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ES_fort-omaha-hospital_Omaha-NE.html
Maintaining the health and well-being of soldiers at Fort Omaha was accomplished only after overcoming serious obstacles.
One such obstacle was the shortage of potable water. By 1869 only two of the Fort's wells were considered safe for drinkin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ER_birthsite-of-gerald-r-ford_Omaha-NE.html
38th Presidentof the United States
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works. Our Great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.Here, the People rule?"President Ford's Inaugural AddressAugust 9, 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13E2_territory-and-state-of-nebraska_Omaha-NE.html
Nebraska, originally part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, became a territory of the United States Government in 1854 when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Nebraska Territory included parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13E1_first-lady-betty-ford_Omaha-NE.html
Betty Fordpersonally dedicatedthis Rose Gardento the People of OmahaJuly 12, 1980
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13E0_president-gerald-r-ford_Omaha-NE.html
The 38th Presidentof the United Statesrevisited this siteJuly 12, 1980
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13DZ_the-city-of-omaha-nebraska_Omaha-NE.html
The settlement of Omaha began in 1854 with the opening of the Nebraska Territory. The following year Omaha was selected as the Nebraska Territorial capital. Omaha was incorporated as a city in 1857. The capital was moved from Omaha to Lincoln in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13DD_site-of-union-pacifics-omaha-shops_Omaha-NE.html
You are standing at the site of the original Union Pacific Omaha Shops.
From this point a railroad was begun that would fulfill a national destiny.
Even before Union Pacific was an American icon, it was an American dream. It was a dream as b…