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The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 1862 during the 1860s, and in 1867 was admitted to the Union as the 37th U.S. state.
Nearby Omaha City was founded in 1854, with Nebraska City and Kearney incorporated in 1855. The influential towns of Brownville and Fontanelle were founded that year as well. The early village of Lancaster, (later called and renamed Lincoln), was founded in 1856, along with the towns of Saratoga, South Nebraska City and Florence. [4]
The Gate City: A History of Omaha. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803279671. Larsen, Lawrence H. (2007). Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803206021. Menard, Orville D. (1989). River City Empire: Tom Dennison's Omaha. Lincoln. ISBN 9780803248335.
The Otoe Reservation was a twenty-four square-mile section straddling the Kansas-Nebraska state line. The majority of the reservation sat in modern-day southeast Jefferson County, Nebraska . As early as 1834, the Oto relinquished land to the government in fulfillment of a treaty.
1854 A treaty with the chiefs of the Omaha was negotiated, by which that tribe ceded the land now comprising Omaha to the United States. 1854 Nebraska Territory is organized under the Nebraska-Kansas Act on May 30, 1854. 1854 The Council Bluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company hired Council Bluffs surveyor Alfred D. Jones to survey Omaha City. The ...
An enlargeable map of the state of Nebraska. Names Common name: Nebraska. Pronunciation: / n ə ˈ b r æ s k ə / ⓘ Official name: State of Nebraska; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: NE; ISO 3166-2 code: US-NE; Internet second-level domain: .ne.us; Nicknames Beef State (previously used on license plates) Cornhusker State ...
The first incorporated city in Nebraska, Nebraska City, was granted its charter by a special act in 1855. [4] In 1855, the Omaha Claim Club imposed their will on the territorial legislature, forcing the passage of a territorial law granting 320 acres (1.3 km 2) per settler, they doubled the federally imposed limit of 160 acres (0.6 km 2). [5]