by DCHSADMIN | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog
The first community settlement in the Florence area occurred in 1846, when it served as the Winter Quarters for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints traveling westward. At this time, over 3,000 Mormons stayed in the area for almost two years...
by DCHSADMIN | Sep 25, 2020 | Blog
This week, our focus is on yet another integral part of modern-day Omaha that began as an independent municipality. In addition to the annexation of Dundee to the west, 1915 brought the annexation of another even larger community. The incorporation of South Omaha into...
by DCHSADMIN | Sep 18, 2020 | Blog
Shortly after the wave of annexations that Omaha saw at the end of the 19th century, the city was looking to expand again. Omaha’s population had tripled between 1890 and 1910,[1] but found that it was boxed in by the river to the east and smaller towns and villages...
by DCHSADMIN | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog
When Omaha (“Omaha City”, as it was then known) was officially incorporated in 1854, it was much, much smaller than its current boundaries. Because the city was being built from hardly anything, the first platting was very precise, dividing the land into 320 blocks...
by DCHSADMIN | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog
As the final installment of our series to commemorate the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage, we wanted to take the opportunity to shed light on one more Nebraska woman who played an important role in woman’s suffrage as a young woman, and who then continued...
by DCHSADMIN | Aug 8, 2020 | Blog
The next phase of Nebraska’s women’s suffrage story has a direct causal link to the wave of support shown for the cause in the 1860s through the 1880s. Rheta Childe Dorr was born in Omaha in about 1868 to Edward Payson Child and Lucille Mitchell, who at the time lived...
by DCHSADMIN | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
Women’s suffrage in Nebraska was a long battle, and in the weeks leading up to the centennial of 19th Amendment on August 26th, we’re going to explore some of the ins and outs of our state’s history throughout the suffrage movement. National women’s suffrage movements...
by DCHSADMIN | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog
As our strange summer of 2020 moves on, with face-masks and distancing policies still in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, some of our members may be reminded of summers 50 years ago when outbreaks of polio closed public pools and movie theaters every...
by DCHSADMIN | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
To continue last week’s theme of wacky news stories, I recently had the pleasure of cataloguing a family archive that included a wealth of photographs, newspaper clippings, books, certificates, and war memorabilia from 1885-1940s. Even more wonderful was the amount of...
by DCHSADMIN | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog
Here at the Historical Society and General Crook House, we’ve spent the last few months knee-deep in Omaha’s streetcar history for our annual exhibition “The Nitty Gritty on a Streetcar City”. The exhibition officially opens next week on July 15, and we can’t wait to...
