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Maple Village Park: McKinley Park: Meadow Lane Park: Memorial Park: 6008 Underwood Avenue This park was created in 1948 as a memorial for Douglas County's citizens who have served in the armed forces. Mercer Park: Metcalfe Park: 1700 Country Club Avenue: 3.1 acres, playground, trails, open space, named for former mayor of Omaha, Richard Lee ...
Today six tribes, (Omaha, Winnebago, Ponca, Iowa, Santee Sioux, Sac and Fox), have reservations in Nebraska. In 2006 American Indian and Alaska Native persons comprised one percent of the state's population. [2] Towns at the northern border also have relations within reservations within South Dakota.
Created. 1889. Open. All year. The Elmwood Park neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska is a historically significant area that was developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. It extends from Leavenworth Street on the north to Center Street on the south; from South 50th Street on the east to South 72nd Street on the west. [1]
Coordinates: 41.245329°N 95.959954°W. Site as of 2006. The Gerald R. Ford Birthsite and Gardens in Omaha, Nebraska marks the location of the house at 3202 Woolworth Avenue where U.S. President Gerald R. Ford lived for a couple of weeks after his birth in July 1913. It was the home of his paternal grandparents, Charles Henry and Martha King.
The southwest part of North Omaha includes Benson, located near 60th and Maple Streets. Originally incorporated as a city in the 1880s, it was annexed to Omaha in 1917. Benson has several historic locations, and is an important neighborhood today. Next to Benson is Dundee, near 50th and Dodge Streets.
1930. Status. Open all year. Hummel Park is located at 11808 John J. Pershing Drive in North Omaha, Nebraska. Developed on 202 acres (0.82 km 2) of land donated to the City of Omaha in 1930, [1] the park was named after Joseph B. Hummel, [2] a long time superintendent of Omaha's Parks and Recreation Department.
The Niobrara Reservation is a former Indian Reservation in northeast Nebraska. It originally comprised lands for both the Santee Sioux and the Ponca, both Siouan -speaking tribes, near the mouth of the Niobrara River at its confluence with the Missouri River. In the late nineteenth century the United States government built a boarding school at ...
History. The reservation was established by a treaty at Washington, D.C., dated March 16, 1854. By this treaty, the Omaha Nation sold the majority of its land west of the Missouri River to the United States, but was authorized to select an area of 300,000 acres (470 sq mi; 1,200 km 2) to keep as a permanent reservation. [6]