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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NW2_omaha-centennial_Omaha-NE.html
To commemorate the sturdy pioneers who in 1854 crossed the Missouri River to establish the Town of Omaha, more than 500 committee members and several thousand of the city's quarter-million citizens one hundred years later conducted a twelve-month …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KHV_labor_Omaha-NE.html
This monument, titled Labor, is a salute to the dedication and hard work of all those who built the grand city of Omaha. It is a tribute to the men and women who worked for and continue to forge a better life for themselves, their families and the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KHT_missouri-river-flood_Omaha-NE.html
Matthew Placzek's Labor Monument
Became the Symbol of the 2011 Flood.
The 2011 Missouri River Flood was triggered by record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming and near record spring rainfall in the upper Missouri River Basi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KHQ_skinner-macaroni-building-1914-1915_Omaha-NE.html
Increasing business led the Skinner Manufacturing Company to build this six-story brick building in 1914. Designed by architect Harry Lawrie, it was doubled in size with the addition of 66 feet to the east a year later. The new building was Skinne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KH9_the-omaha-bolt-nut-and-screw-building_Omaha-NE.html
has been placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places
by the
United States
Department of the Interior
Renovated 1992
Alley-Poyner Architect
Lund-Ross Constructors
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HLO_first-national-bank-building_Omaha-NE.html
has been listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D8J_westwardly-by-the-waters_Omaha-NE.html
In 1803 the Missouri River carried the hopes of the young United States in its dark and unpredictable waters. President Thomas Jefferson sought a "direct & practicable water communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce." The Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D8H_the-council-was-held_Omaha-NE.html
Near here, the Corps of Discovery held its first council, making speeches and presenting gifts to the Otoe and Missouria. Communicating through an interpreter, members of the Expedition believed their messages were clear. But were they?
This me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D8A_capt-lewis-will-give-us-accounts-of-new-things-only_Omaha-NE.html
Between 1804 and 1806, the Corps of Discovery traveled from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific coast and back. President Jefferson instructed Meriwether Lewis to collect information on "the soil & face of the country, [its] growth & vegetable pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D89_endeavor-to-make-yourself-acquainted-with-the-nations_Omaha-NE.html
In August 1804, members of the Expedition visited villages like this one, homes to the Otoe and Missouria who lived in what is today Omaha. Planning to invite these tribes to a council, or meeting, the explorers found the villages deserted. The tr…