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Millard was laid out in 1870 by Ezra Millard, and named for him. [1] A post office was established in Millard in 1873, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1967. [2] The town was incorporated in 1885. [1] After lengthy legal fights, the town of Millard was annexed by the city of Omaha in 1971. [3]
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26] Now a local history museum. [27]
The Millard Public Schools is a school district in the southwest part of Omaha, Nebraska, United States.The first school in Millard was established in the fall of 1870. The school district is named for Ezra Millard (1833-1886), who platted Millard, a mostly uninhabited prairie 12 miles southwest of the city.
1867 Nebraska is admitted into the Union as a state. 1868 Nebraska's first high school graduates come from Brownell Hall in North Omaha. 1868 The Sherman Barracks are built in the location of present-day North Omaha. 1869 The old territorial capitol building given to the City of Omaha for a high school.
Millard is a broad area of southwest Omaha, originally a separate city and annexed in 1971. The original town site is near 132nd and Q Streets. Saratoga is a historic neighborhood in North Omaha. The town was founded, boomed and busted within one year (1856–57). Its legacy includes a school, library and businesses still in the area.
Millard South High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The school was established in 1970 as Millard High School. It is one of four high schools within the Millard Public School District. Millard South is a member of the Nebraska School Activities Association. Athletic teams are known as ...
Ezra Millard (February 2, 1833 – August 20, 1886) was a U.S. politician who was mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, from 1869 to 1871. [1] He was also brother to Joseph Hopkins Millard, another mayor of Omaha, and namesake of Millard, Nebraska. Millard died in Saratoga Springs, New York of heart complications in 1886.
The Webster Telephone Exchange Building is the current location of the Great Plains Black History Museum. The Grand Court of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition was located in Kountze Place on the current site of Kountze Park in North Omaha. The USS Hazard is a National Historic Landmark located in Freedom Park.