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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]
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.
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.
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country , William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha.
Joseph Hopkins Millard (April 20, 1836 – January 13, 1922) was a British North American-born American businessman and politician from Nebraska. He served in the United States Senate and as mayor of Omaha , and was an anti-suffrage activist.
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.
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 ...
2006 Senator Ernie Chambers forwards a bill through the Nebraska State Legislature to divide Omaha Public Schools along racial lines. 2009 Senator Chambers is forced out of office due to a term limits law created to stop him from serving beyond his 38 years in the Nebraska Legislature. He was the longest-serving state senator in the history of ...