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Chimney Rock was designated a National Historic Site on August 9, 1956, [2] and is a National Park Service affiliated area, maintained and administered by History Nebraska with NPS technical support. Chimney Rock and Independence Rock further west in Wyoming are two of the prominent features along the Oregon Trail.
Springfield is the site of the Sarpy County fair held every August. The MoPac Trail runs from Springfield south to the Platte River . [ 9 ] This trail will connect Omaha to Lincoln upon completion.{ [ 10 ] }
It was named for General Potter, a railroad shareholder. [5] On July 6, 1928, Potter received the largest hailstone ever recorded, which measured approximately 17 inches (43.2 centimeters) in diameter and weighed approximately 1.5 pounds (680 grams). [6] Another hailstone of that diameter measurement was recovered in Aurora, Nebraska on June 22 ...
Classic potter's kick-wheel in Erfurt, Germany An electric potter's wheel, with bat (green disk) and throwing bucket. Not shown is a foot pedal used to control the speed of the wheel, similar to a sewing machine. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.
The potters used slab-built construction and the "coiling" method, [3] [4] which involved working the clay into a long string which was wound round to form a shape and then modeled to form smooth walls. The potter's wheel was not used by pre-contact Native Americans. Some decoration of the clay was done at this stage by incising, defenstrating ...
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Nebraska Highway 50 (N-50) is a north–south highway in the state of Nebraska.The southern terminus is at the Nebraska-Kansas border near Du Bois.The northern terminus is in the Millard neighborhood of Omaha at an intersection with U.S. Highway 275 (US 275) and N-92.