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Brought to Omaha from Iowa in 1866, Willow Springs began as a "little one-horse concern" owned by J.C. McCoy. The company was seized by the federal government in 1869 in lieu of McCoy's defaulted revenue tax payments. The same year the government sold it to James G. McGrath and Peter E. Iler, operating as Iler and Company.
No longer functioning in Omaha. [7] New York Life Insurance Company: 1845 Omaha Country Club: 1899 Omaha Public Power District: 1946 Omaha World-Herald: 1885 Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It was absorbed by George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. Peter Kiewit Sons: 1884 Packaging Corporation of America: 1959
Slowdown is an entertainment venue located in the NoDo neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska.A combination of a live music venue, shops, restaurants, and apartments, the venue was developed by Saddle Creek Records as a direct competitor to the Sokol Auditorium in Little Bohemia. [1]
One way to do this was by creating malls, anchored by Brandeis. In 1959, Brandeis Investment Co. developed the Crossroads Shopping Center in Midtown Omaha. [4] The mall was also anchored by Sears which closed in 2019. Crossroads was the 9th enclosed shopping mall in the United States and became the place to be in Omaha.
Omaha's main airport, Eppley Airfield, is now in East Omaha, and the community has been the location of racial contention for several years. East Omaha was the first annexation to the City of Omaha in 1854. Far north Omaha includes everything north of Ames Avenue, west of Florence Boulevard, and east of 72nd Street.
1892— Omaha lost Carter Lake-area to Iowa in U.S. Supreme Court case; 1893— Illinois Railroad East Omaha Bridge first opened; 1897— East Omaha considered for Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, not selected; 1908— Edward and Selena Carter Cornish donated 260-acres to the City of Omaha to form the Levi Carter Park.
From the 1920s through the early 1960s the Near North Side neighborhood boasted a vibrant entertainment district featuring African American music.The main artery of North 24th Street was the heart of the city's African-American cultural and business community with a thriving jazz and rhythm and blues scene that attracted top-flight swing, blues and jazz bands from across the country.
Old Gold Coast is a historic district in south Omaha, Nebraska. With South 10th Street as the central artery, the area was home to neighborhoods such as Little Italy and Forest Hill. The area is referred to as "old" because it was replaced in prominence in the late 19th century when a new district usurped its importance. [ 1 ]