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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYKZ_the-pony-express_Big-Springs-NE.html
[Map of the Pony Express route]From April 1860 until October 1861 the famed Pony Express riders passed along the south side of the Plate River south of Big Springs. Diamond Springs station was to the southeast. Frontz and Julesburg stations were t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYKY_waterman-sod-house_Big-Springs-NE.html
The Wallace W. and Libby King Waterman sod house, located nine miles north of here on the Day Road, was built about 1886. The original dwelling had three rooms. In 1925 it was enlarged and remodeled by Virgil and Helen Burke Waterman, and the sod …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYKK_sam-bass-and-the-big-springs-robbery_Big-Springs-NE.html
The first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific train took place near here on the night of September 18, 1877. The legendary Sam Bass and five companions, after capturing John Barnhart, station-master, and destroying the telegraph, forced Union …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZU_ash-hollow-geology_Big-Springs-NE.html
Ash Hollow is a focal point for understanding the geologic history of the Central Great Plains prior to the onset of the Great Ice Age. It is the type locality of the Ash Hollow Formation, named by Henry Engelmann after a visit in 1858-1859. These…