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Nebraska City is a city in Nebraska and the county seat of Otoe County, Nebraska, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,222. [4]The Nebraska State Legislature has credited Nebraska City as being the oldest incorporated city in the state, as it was the first approved by a special act of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature in 1855.
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The first Catholic missionary to visit Nebraska was Reverend Peter DeSmet, who crossed the Missouri River into Nebraska to baptize two infants of the Otoe people near present-day Bellevue in 1838. At that time, the area was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of St. Louis. DeSmet later traveled along the Platte River to a council of the tribes.
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Homesteaders in central Nebraska in 1866. 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.
Willa Cather Childhood Home, Red Cloud, Nebraska. Cather was born in 1873 on her maternal grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. [18] [19] Her father was Charles Fectigue Cather. [20]
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]