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A postcard showing Royal Terrace in Peony Park, Omaha, Nebraska. Peony Park was an amusement park located at North 78th and Cass Streets in Omaha, Nebraska.Founded in 1919, over the next seventy-five years the 35-acre (140,000 m 2) park included a 4.5-acre (18,000 m 2) pool, beach and waterslide, a ballroom that billed itself as "1 acre under one roof," an open-air dance area for 3000 dancers ...
Mutual of Omaha is a Fortune 500 mutual insurance and financial services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. [1] Founded in 1909 as Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, Mutual of Omaha is a financial organization offering a variety of insurance and financial products for individuals, businesses and groups throughout the United States.
Germans in Omaha, Nebraska. Germans in Omaha immigrated to the city in Nebraska from its earliest days of founding in 1854, in the years after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. They continued to immigrate to Omaha in large numbers later in the 19th century, when many came from Bavaria and southern Germany, and into the early 20th ...
The Omaha Belt Line was a 15-mile (24 km) long railroad that circumnavigated the city starting in 1885. Carrying passengers and cargo, the rail was operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The railroad also had branches into Lincoln, Wahoo and Nebraska City. [7] The line was discontinued in the early 1960s.
Boys Town Medical Center, Boys Town, Nebraska, c. 1930 – 1945. The Fort Omaha Hospital was opened in 1878 to care for soldiers wounded during the Indian Wars. Built along with several other notable buildings at the Fort, the hospital operated through the 1940s. [6] The Ford Hospital in Omaha was built in 1916.
African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska are central to the development and growth of the 43rd largest city in the United States. Black people are first recorded arriving in the area that became the city when York came through in 1804 with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the residence of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable who lived at Fort Lisa for an extended period in 1810.
The Danish Pioneer was founded in Omaha in 1872 and printed in the city until 1958. Bee. Founded in 1874, bought by World-Herald in 1937 and closed. The Evening World. Founded in 1885; purchased The Daily Herald in 1889. The Progress. Founded in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett as an African-American newspaper.
Nebraska hired Bill Moos in 2017, and as one of his first orders of business he hired UCF head coach and former Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost as the team’s head football coach.